Johann Friedrich Höger is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Johann Friedrich Höger as German architect (1877-1949).
Johann Friedrich Höger was born in 1877. His recorded nationality is Germany.
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 university teacher.
His work is associated with brick expressionism.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Johann Friedrich Höger died in 1949, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Movement: Brick Expressionism
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