In the history of building, Alexander Francis Dunlop is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Alexander Francis Dunlop as Canadian architect (1842–1923).
Alexander Francis Dunlop was born at Montreal in 1842. 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.
His best-known building is St. James United Church. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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 Francis Dunlop died in 1923, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: St. James United Church
