Otto Königsberger belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Otto Königsberger as German architect (1908–1999).
Otto Königsberger was born at Berlin in 1908. His recorded nationality is Germany.
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 urban planner.
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.
Otto Königsberger died in 1999, aged 91. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
