William Menking, co-founder of The Architect’s Newspaper, passes away

2020-04-13T23:15:00-04:00

William Menking, educator, architectural historian, curator, and co-founder of The Architect’s Newspaper, has passed away at age 73 from cancer.

Menking was born in 1947 on Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, and grew up in California’s Central Valley. Menking attended the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Bachelor of Arts in architecture and urban studies there. Menking would later earn an M.S. from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London, an M.S. in city and regional planning from Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York.

In 2003, Menking and publisher Diana Darling founded The Architect’s Newspaper, an architectural news publication inspired by Menking’s time working at The Architect’s Journal and Building Design while in London. Over 17 years, Menking would lead the newspaper’s editorial division as Editor-In-Chief, a position he used to offer critical and hopeful insight into the activiti...

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William Menking, co-founder of The Architect’s Newspaper, passes away