Margaret Staal-Kropholler practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Margaret Staal-Kropholler as Dutch architect (1891-1966).
Margaret Staal-Kropholler was born at Haarlem in 1891. Her recorded nationality is Kingdom of the Netherlands. She trained at Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam.
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 architect, interior designer and draftsperson.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Kingdom of the Netherlands shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Margaret Staal-Kropholler died in 1966, aged 75. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam
