Emily Williams is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Emily Williams as American architect.
Emily Williams was born at Nevada City in 1869. Her recorded nationality is United States. She trained at Pacific University and Stanford University.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
She is recorded as architect.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in United States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Emily Williams died in 1942, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Pacific University and Stanford University
