Francis Rattenbury practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Francis Rattenbury as Canadian architect (1867–1935).
Francis Rattenbury was born at Leeds in 1867. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom.
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 British Columbia Parliament Buildings. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in United Kingdom shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Francis Rattenbury died in 1935, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: British Columbia Parliament Buildings
