Martin Elsaesser belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Martin Elsaesser as German architect (1884–1957).
Martin Elsaesser was born at Tübingen in 1884. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Technical University of Munich.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and university teacher.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Germany shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Martin Elsaesser died in 1957, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Technical University of Munich
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