Karl Völker practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Karl Völker as German architect (1889-1962).
Karl Völker was born at Halle (Saale) in 1889. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect, sculptor and painter.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
Karl Völker died in 1962, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
