Helgo Zettervall belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Helgo Zettervall as Swedish architect (1831-1907).
Helgo Zettervall was born at Lidköping in 1831. His recorded nationality is Sweden. He trained at Royal Swedish Academy of Fine 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 and painter.
Among his best-known works are Lund Observatory and Oscar Fredrik Church. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Sweden shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Helgo Zettervall died in 1907, aged 76. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Lund Observatory
- Notable work: Oscar Fredrik Church
- Trained at Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
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