Joseph Reid Anderson is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Joseph Reid Anderson as American civil engineer, industrialist, and soldier (1813-1892).
Joseph Reid Anderson was born at Fincastle in 1813. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at United States Military Academy.
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 civil engineer.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in United States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Joseph Reid Anderson died in 1892, aged 79. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at United States Military Academy
