Johannes Otzen belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Johannes Otzen as architect (1839-1911).
Johannes Otzen was born at Thumby in 1839. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Prussia.
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, university teacher and counsel.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Prussia shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Johannes Otzen died in 1911, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class
