Dutch architect Sim Van der Ryn, a pioneer of green architecture and a longtime professor at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, has died at age 89 according to the San Francisco Chronicle. He will be remembered for his experimental teaching methods and approach to designing... View full entry

British architectural historian Joseph Rykwert has died. The influential academic and writer who was considered to be a leading critical voice of his generation, taking aim at the banality of modernism and its encroachments on the urban sphere, lived to be 98 according to his New York Times... View full entry

Victor Lundy, the renowned modernist architect whose work leaned on fine art and espoused a more humane form of architecture for the masses, has died in Texas at the age of 101, the Sarasota Observer is reporting. A true man of his times, Lundy served in the U.S. Army’s 26th Infantry Division... View full entry

Curtis J. Moody, a trailblazing architect and founder of Moody Nolan, passed away peacefully yesterday, on October 13th, 2024. He was 73. Moody leaves behind a remarkable legacy as the leader of the largest African-American-owned architecture firm in the United States. His contributions to the... View full entry

Colin Fournier, the British architect and planner who helped form Archigram with Sir Peter Cook and others in the early 1960s, has passed away at age 79. He was best known for the firm’s 2003 Kunsthaus Graz and work with Bernard Tschumi on the design of Parc de la Villette in Paris. A... View full entry

Fumihiko Maki, the 1993 Pritzker Prize laureate and a leading figure in Japan's Metabolism movement, passed away in Tokyo on June 6th, his Maki and Associates firm announced late Tuesday. He was 95.  Maki was born in Tokyo in 1928 and immigrated to America to study at the Cranbrook... View full entry

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, the influential California-based graphic designer and landscape architect, passed away on May 7th in San Francisco at the age of 95.  Stauffacher Solomon died a prominent member of the design community whose career advanced aside an unusual synthesis of modern... View full entry

Archinect is remembering the life and legacy of Ball State University architecture professor Janice Shimizu, who has passed away at the age of 54. Janice won many hearts and minds throughout an estimable career in academia and the professional realm, sentiments that were repeated by the many... View full entry

Paolo Pininfarina, the Italian business leader credited with expanding his family’s automotive enterprise into architecture and other areas of the design field, has died in Turin at the age of 65. The Pininfarina Chairman was known as a visionary who designed more than 600 cars after completing... View full entry

Gaetano Pesce, the critically acclaimed Italian architect and designer of thought-provoking furniture, has passed away in New York City at the age of 84. He will be remembered for a groundbreaking career that spanned six decades and saw his many designs scattered across four continents and... View full entry

Richard Serra has died. The 85-year-old sculptor who made architecture more or less a permanent condition of his art was known for inventing a process for bending corten steel to create works he explained were about eliciting sensation and intended to display the unseen physical forces of nature... View full entry

New York's Jeffrey Beers International (JBI) has shared news that its founder Jeffrey Beers passed away from a battle with cancer on Monday, March 18th, at the age of 67.  A prominent figure in hospitality design and planning schemes, Beers began his career as an architect in I.M. Pei's New... View full entry

José Oubrerie, a French architect with ties to many leading modernists, has died at the age of 91.  The longtime Knowlton School professor was noted for his academic accomplishments and for being one of the last surviving members of Le Corbusier’s studio. He inspired many generations of... View full entry

The New York Times is reporting Autodesk founder John Walker to have died on February 2nd at the age of 74.  The technologist and Case Western Reserve University alumnus is credited with the development of AutoCAD, a software tool which revolutionized... View full entry

Iris Apfel, an iconoclast interior designer who drew praise for her style and fashion collection, passed away last week at the age of 102. The New York Times is reporting on her influence in the design world this week following her death on March 1st. Through the work of her label Old World... View full entry