Heinrich Tessenow belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Heinrich Tessenow as German architect (1876-1950).
Heinrich Tessenow was born in 1876. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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 Tessenow died in 1950, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
