In the history of building, Karl Mayreder is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Karl Mayreder as Austrian architect and husband of Rosa Mayreder (1856-1935).
Karl Mayreder was born at Mauer in 1856. His recorded nationality is Austria. He trained at TU Wien.
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 and university teacher.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Graz.
That the work was built in Austria shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Karl Mayreder died in 1935, aged 79. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Graz
- Trained at TU Wien
