Sigurd Frosterus practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Sigurd Frosterus as Finnish architect (1876–1956).
Sigurd Frosterus was born at Asikkala in 1876. His recorded nationality is Grand Duchy of Finland. He trained at Imperial Alexander University and Helsinki University of Technology.
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, collector and art historian.
Among his best-known works are Stockmann and Tamminiemi. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Karl Emil Tollander Prize.
That the work was built in Grand Duchy of Finland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Sigurd Frosterus died in 1956, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Stockmann
- Notable work: Tamminiemi
- Karl Emil Tollander Prize
- Trained at Imperial Alexander University and Helsinki University of Technology
