Johann Poppe is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Johann Poppe as German architect and interior designer (1837-1915).
Johann Poppe was born at Bremen in 1837. His recorded nationality is German Empire.
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.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in German Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Johann Poppe died in 1915, aged 78. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
