Johann Georg van Caspel is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Johann Georg van Caspel as Dutch architect and graphic designer (1870-1928).
Johann Georg van Caspel was born at Amsterdam in 1870. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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, graphic designer and painter.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Kingdom of the Netherlands shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Johann Georg van Caspel died in 1928, aged 58. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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