Valdemar Koch is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Valdemar Koch as Danish architect and local politician (1852-1902).
Valdemar Koch was born at Sønder Kirkeby Parish in 1852. 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 designer, architect and furniture designer.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Eckersberg Medal.
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.
Valdemar Koch died in 1902, aged 50. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Eckersberg Medal
- Trained at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
