Vjekoslav Bastl practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Vjekoslav Bastl as Croatian architect (1872–1947).
Vjekoslav Bastl was born in 1872. His recorded nationality is Austria–Hungary.
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 best-known building is Kallina House. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Austria–Hungary shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Vjekoslav Bastl died in 1947, aged 75. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Kallina House
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