Irving Gill practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Irving Gill as modernist architect (1870-1936).
Irving Gill was born at Tully in 1870. His recorded nationality is United States.
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 Americanization School. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
Irving Gill died in 1936, aged 66. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Americanization School
