Richard Kauffmann is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Richard Kauffmann as German-Israeli architect and town planner (1887–1958).
Richard Kauffmann was born at Frankfurt in 1887. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at Technical University of Darmstadt and Technical University of Munich.
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.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Richard Kauffmann died in 1958, aged 71. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Technical University of Darmstadt and Technical University of Munich
