In the history of building, Lodovico Burnacini is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Lodovico Burnacini as Italian architect (1636–1707).
Lodovico Burnacini was born at Mantua in 1636. His recorded nationality is Austria.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect and scenographer.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Lodovico Burnacini died in 1707, aged 71. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
