Karl von Großheim belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Karl von Großheim as German architect (1841-1911).
Karl von Großheim was born at Lübeck in 1841. His recorded nationality is German Confederation. He trained at Bauakademie.
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, construction officer and university teacher.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in German Confederation shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Karl von Großheim died in 1911, aged 70. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Bauakademie
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