In the history of building, Samuel Werenfels is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Samuel Werenfels as Swiss architect.
Samuel Werenfels was born at Basel in 1720. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
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 Switzerland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Samuel Werenfels died in 1800, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
