Lipót Baumhorn belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Lipót Baumhorn as Hungarian architect (1860–1932).
Lipót Baumhorn was born in 1860. His recorded nationality is Hungary.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Hungary shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Lipót Baumhorn died in 1932, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
