João Frederico Ludovice practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists João Frederico Ludovice as German architect and goldsmith.
João Frederico Ludovice was born in 1670. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect and goldsmith.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
João Frederico Ludovice died in 1752, aged 82. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
