Mary Colter

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568983455
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 320 pages
25,4 x 20,3 cm
colour/black & white
March 2002
€26,60 (excl. VAT)

Mary Colter

Architect of the Southwest

Arnold Berke

Mary Colter may well be the best-known unknown architect in the world: her buildings at the Grand Canyon National Park – which include Lookout Tower, Hopi House, Bright Angel Lodge and many others – are admired by almost five million visitors a year.

This extraordinary book about an extraordinary woman weaves together three stories – the remarkable career of a woman in a man's profession during the late 19th century; the creation of a building and interior style drawn from regional history and landscape; and the exploitation, largely at the hands of the railroads, of the American Southwest for leisure travel.