Alexander Cowper Hutchison is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Alexander Cowper Hutchison as Canadian architect (1838-1922).
Alexander Cowper Hutchison was born at Montreal in 1838. His recorded nationality is Canada.
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.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Canada shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Alexander Cowper Hutchison died in 1922, aged 84. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
