Joseph Furttenbach belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Joseph Furttenbach as German architect (1591-1667).
Joseph Furttenbach was born at Leutkirch im Allgäu in 1591. His recorded nationality is Germany.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as mathematician, architect and military engineer.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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.
Joseph Furttenbach died in 1667, aged 76. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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