Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan as Scottish civil engineer (1899–1985).
Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan was born at Dumfriesshire in 1899. Her recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She trained at Langholm Academy and University of Edinburgh.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
She is recorded as civil engineer and engineer.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan died in 1985, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Langholm Academy and University of Edinburgh
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