Reinhard Baumeister practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Reinhard Baumeister as German engineer and urban planner (1833-1917).
Reinhard Baumeister was born at Hamburg in 1833. His recorded nationality is Germany.
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 university teacher, urban planner and author.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
Reinhard Baumeister died in 1917, aged 84. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
