William Henry Barlow belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists William Henry Barlow as British civil engineer (1812-1902).
William Henry Barlow was born at Woolwich in 1812. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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 civil engineer and engineer.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
That the work was built in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
William Henry Barlow died in 1902, aged 90. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
