Heinrich Blum practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Heinrich Blum as Czech architect (1894–1942).
Heinrich Blum was born at Soběšice in 1894. His recorded nationality is Czech Republic. He trained at German Technical University in Brno.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and visual artist.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Czech Republic shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Heinrich Blum died in 1942, aged 48. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at German Technical University in Brno
