In the history of building, Johannes Radke is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Johannes Radke as German architect (1853–1938).
Johannes Radke was born at Margonin in 1853. His recorded nationality is German Reich.
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.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in German Reich shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Johannes Radke died in 1938, aged 85. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
