Maurice Turrettini practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Maurice Turrettini as Swiss architect (1878-1932).
Maurice Turrettini was born at Geneva in 1878. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
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 architect.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Switzerland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Maurice Turrettini died in 1932, aged 54. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
