2024-05-08T04:54:20-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150261104/donald-p-ryder-new-york-architect-and-professor-has-passed-away Alexander Walter 2021-04-26T15:11:00-04:00 >2021-04-27T13:52:06-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ba/ba3e7246732597e833adfe094dc77f2b.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Donald P. Ryder, whose firm designed important repositories of Black culture and social history in becoming one of the nation&rsquo;s most prominent partnerships of Black architects, died on Feb. 17 at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was 94. [...] Mr. Ryder joined with J. Max Bond Jr., widely regarded as the most influential African-American architect in New York, to form Bond Ryder &amp; Associates in the late 1960s.</p></em><br /><br /><p>During his partnership with <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150212699/first-biography-on-architect-max-bond-to-be-published-by-princeton-university-press" target="_blank">J. Max Bond Jr.</a>, Donald P. Ryder left his mark as architect of several noteworthy residential and civic buildings, including the&nbsp;Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. After leaving the firm which had merged with <a href="https://archinect.com/davis-brody-bond" target="_blank">Davis, Brody &amp; Associates</a> in 1990, Ryder was a professor and later chairman of the <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/13919101/city-college-of-new-york-ccny" target="_blank">Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York</a>.</p>