In the history of building, Sir Banister Fletcher is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Sir Banister Fletcher as English architect and architectural historian (1866–1953).
Sir Banister Fletcher was born at London in 1866. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at King's College London.
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 and barrister.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in United Kingdom shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Sir Banister Fletcher died in 1953, aged 87. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at King's College London
