Theodor Höijer is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Theodor Höijer as Finnish architect (1843–1910).
Theodor Höijer was born at Helsinki in 1843. His recorded nationality is Grand Duchy of Finland.
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 politician and architect.
His best-known building is Ateneum. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Theodor Höijer died in 1910, aged 67. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Ateneum
