Lysandros Kaftantzoglou belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Lysandros Kaftantzoglou as Greek university professor and architect.
Lysandros Kaftantzoglou was born at Thessaloniki in 1811. His recorded nationality is Greece.
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 university teacher and architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Greece shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Lysandros Kaftantzoglou died in 1885, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
