In the history of building, Niels Sigfred Nebelong is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Niels Sigfred Nebelong as architect (1806-1871).
Niels Sigfred Nebelong was born at Copenhagen in 1806. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Denmark. He trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
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.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Denmark shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Niels Sigfred Nebelong died in 1871, aged 65. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog
- Trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
