Thorvald Bindesbøll belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Thorvald Bindesbøll as Danish architect (1846-1908).
Thorvald Bindesbøll was born at Copenhagen in 1846. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Denmark. He trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
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, designer and sculptor.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Denmark shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Thorvald Bindesbøll died in 1908, aged 62. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
