In the history of building, Vjekoslav Heinzel is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Vjekoslav Heinzel as Croatian architect and mayor of Zagreb (1871-1934).
Vjekoslav Heinzel was born at Zagreb in 1871. His recorded nationality is Austria–Hungary. He trained at Graz University of Technology and University of Stuttgart.
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.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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 Heinzel died in 1934, aged 63. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Graz University of Technology and University of Stuttgart
