Heinrich Scheel practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Heinrich Scheel as Baltic German architect (1829-1909).
Heinrich Scheel was born at Hamburg in 1829. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Imperial Academy of Arts.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
His work is associated with eclecticism.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class.
That the work was built in Germany shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Heinrich Scheel died in 1909, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class
- Movement: eclecticism
- Trained at Imperial Academy of Arts
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