2024-12-24T12:43:36-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150249995/james-l-nagle-chicago-seven-architect-has-died Alexander Walter 2021-02-15T13:37:00-05:00 >2021-02-15T13:55:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c1/c150581e6fc4bdcc3cbfac0af288814b.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>James L. "Jim" Nagle, founding member of Chicago-based <a href="https://archinect.com/sheehannaglehartray" target="_blank">Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects</a> and an influential voice of the <em>Chicago Seven</em>, a postmodern group of architects formed around <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/30374/stanley-tigerman" target="_blank">Stanley Tigerman</a> in the late 1970s in opposition to the doctrinal application of Modernism at the time, has passed away at the age of 83. <br></p> <p>"It wasn't Mies that got boring," Nagle said during a 2005 panel discussion at the <em>Celebrating 25 Years of the Chicago Seven</em> reunion. "It was the copiers that got boring.... You got off an airplane in the 1970s, and you didn't know where you were."<br></p> <p>In remembrance of his influence and contribution, Nagle's partner Don McKay, principal at Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects, issued this statement: <br></p> <p><em>We are saddened by the passing or our colleague, Jim Nagle, one of the very best architects we have known.</em></p> <p><em>Jim&rsquo;s success came early as one of a group of architects who claimed design independence from the orthodox Modernism that dominated Chicago architecture at the time. Jim wa...</em></p>