In the history of building, Karl Eduard Aeschlimann is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Karl Eduard Aeschlimann as Swiss architect (1808-1893).
Karl Eduard Aeschlimann was born at Burgdorf in 1808. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
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.
His work is associated with architecture.
His best-known building is Livadia Palace. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Switzerland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Karl Eduard Aeschlimann died in 1893, aged 85. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Livadia Palace
- Movement: architecture
