In the history of building, Michiel Brinkman is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Michiel Brinkman as Dutch architect (1873-1925).
Michiel Brinkman was born at Rotterdam in 1873. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Kingdom of the Netherlands shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Michiel Brinkman died in 1925, aged 52. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
