Ulrik Adolph Plesner belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Ulrik Adolph Plesner as Danish architect (1861-1933).
Ulrik Adolph Plesner was born at Vedersø in 1861. 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.
His work is associated with national romantic style.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog and Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog.
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.
Ulrik Adolph Plesner died in 1933, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog
- Decoration of the Cross of Honour of the Dannebrog
- Movement: national Romantic style
- Trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
