Jakob Friedrich Wanner practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Jakob Friedrich Wanner as Swiss architect (1830-1903).
Jakob Friedrich Wanner was born at Illingen in 1830. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
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.
Among his best-known works are Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Winterthur railway station and Aarau railway station. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Switzerland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Jakob Friedrich Wanner died in 1903, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Zürich Hauptbahnhof
- Notable work: Winterthur railway station
- Notable work: Aarau railway station
- Notable work: Schaffhausen railway station
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