Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest

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.

• Author
• Arnold Berke, Alexander Vertikoff

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 320

• Publisher
• Princeton Architectural Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781568983455

• Genres
• architecture, history, art, travel

• Release date
• 2002