Hermann von der Hude practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Hermann von der Hude as German architect (1830-1908).
Hermann von der Hude was born at Lübeck in 1830. His recorded nationality is German Reich.
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, general contractor and official.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in German Reich shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Hermann von der Hude died in 1908, aged 78. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
