Wilhelm Stiassny belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Wilhelm Stiassny as Austrian architect (1842-1910).
Wilhelm Stiassny was born at Bratislava in 1842. His recorded nationality is Austrian Empire. He trained at TU Wien and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Order of Franz Joseph.
That the work was built in Austrian Empire shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Wilhelm Stiassny died in 1910, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Order of Franz Joseph
- Trained at TU Wien and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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