Jakob Maurer is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Jakob Maurer as Swiss architect and politician.
Jakob Maurer was born at Uster in 1929. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect, politician and university teacher.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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 Maurer died in 2025, aged 96. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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