Karl von Hasenauer is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Karl von Hasenauer as Austrian architect (1833-1894).
Karl von Hasenauer was born in 1833. His recorded nationality is Austria.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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 von Hasenauer died in 1894, aged 61. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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