Mary Colter is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Mary Colter as American architect and designer (1869–1958).
Mary Colter was born in 1869. 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.
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.
Mary Colter died in 1958, aged 89. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
