Zsigmond Quittner is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Zsigmond Quittner as Hungarian architect (1859–1918).
Zsigmond Quittner was born at Pest in 1857. His recorded nationality is Hungary. He trained at Technical University of Munich.
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 Gresham Palace. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Hungary shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Zsigmond Quittner died in 1918, aged 61. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Gresham Palace
- Trained at Technical University of Munich
