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On October 15, architect Alan Lapidus passed away in his home in Naples, Maine after battling prostate cancer. His legacy is often connected with his architect father, Morris Lapidus, and being "Donald Trump's architect." However, after working with his father for many years, he used those lessons... View full entry
Sad news today as multiple outlets are reporting the death of Brutalist icon and former RIBA president Owen Luder in England at the age of 93. Luder held a number of different titles throughout his six-decade career and was a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) at the time of his... View full entry
Tributes have been paid from the architecture and design community to design and sustainability champion Lance Hosey, who passed away on August 27th at age 56. Hosey was the Chief Impact Officer at HMC Architects, and an acclaimed author and public speaker. In 2015, Hosey became one of... View full entry
Sad news today as influential Irish architect Niall McCullough has passed away in his native Dublin following a battle with cancer. The Irish Times is reporting that McCullough, who held teaching positions at several universities throughout Ireland and Europe, passed away on Friday following a... View full entry
For those who knew Kristen Richards, her presence within the architecture industry was a primary example of an individual who championed architecture. As a renowned writer, editor, photographer, and architecture advocate, she's responsible for creating ArchNewsNow (ANN) as its Co-founder and... View full entry
Architect and educator, Thomas Gordon Smith, known for his commitment to classical architecture and its contemporary applications, passed away on June 23 at the age of 73. Smith was a professor emeritus and former chair at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Born on April... View full entry
The renowned German architect Gottfried Böhm has passed away at the age of 101. In 1986, Böhm became the first German architect to be awarded the Pritzker Prize, recognizing his skilled use of concrete, steel, and glass in church architecture. Böhm won particular acclaim for his sculptural... View full entry
Charles I. Cassell, a distinguished architect who helped shape the campus of the University of the District of Columbia and fierce advocate of Washington D.C. statehood, passed away on May 17th, the Washington Post reports. He was 96. According to his wife, Linda Wernick-Cassell, the cause of... View full entry
M. Arthur Gensler Jr., the founder of Gensler, has passed away at the age of 85. He was a talented architect who turned his humble San Francisco practice into the largest architecture firm in the world with 50 locations across Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the Americas. Gensler... View full entry
Helmut Jahn, the highly respected German-American architect, was tragically killed on Saturday from a vehicular collision while riding his bicycle in the Chicago suburb of Campton Hills. Born in Germany, near Nuremberg, in 1940, Jahn arrived in Chicago in 1966 to study under Ludwig Mies van... View full entry
Eli Broad, a businessman and philanthropist whose vast fortune, extensive art collection and zeal for civic improvement helped reshape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, died on Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 87. [...]
Mr. Broad (pronounced “brode”) made billions in the home-building and insurance businesses and spent a significant part of his wealth trying to make Los Angeles one of the world’s pre-eminent cultural capitals.
— The New York Times
Broad is best known for his extensive philanthropic work focused on public education, scientific and medical research, and the visual and performing arts. He, along with his wife Edythe, has given more than $4 billion to support these efforts. Their work has placed them among the leading... View full entry
Donald P. Ryder, whose firm designed important repositories of Black culture and social history in becoming one of the nation’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 & Associates in the late 1960s.
— The New York Times
During his partnership with J. Max Bond Jr., Donald P. Ryder left his mark as architect of several noteworthy residential and civic buildings, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. After leaving the firm which had merged with Davis, Brody &... View full entry
Richard Driehaus, the founder of Chicago’s Driehaus Capital Management and namesake of the Driehaus Museum and DePaul University’s Business School, died Tuesday, according to Driehaus Private Equity. He was 78. — Chicago Tribune
Among his numerous charitable contributions, Driehaus was especially committed to the preservation of historical architecture. The Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame was established in 2003 to recognize living architects with significant contributions in the field of... View full entry
Hugh Newell Jacobsen, an award-winning Washington architect whose deceptively simple designs for homes and prominent public buildings honored the values of traditional styles while cleverly infusing modernist sensibilities, died March 4 at an assisted-living center in Front Royal, Va. He was 91. — The Washington Post
James L. "Jim" Nagle, founding member of Chicago-based Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects and an influential voice of the Chicago Seven, a postmodern group of architects formed around Stanley Tigerman in the late 1970s in opposition to the doctrinal application of Modernism at the time, has passed... View full entry