Miguel Ángel de Quevedo is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Miguel Ángel de Quevedo as Mexican architect (1862-1946).
Miguel Ángel de Quevedo was born at Guadalajara in 1862. His recorded nationality is Mexico.
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 engineer, architect and painter.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Mexico shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Miguel Ángel de Quevedo died in 1946, aged 84. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
