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photo of gottfried bohm
1920–2021

Pritzker Prize-winning German architect Gottfried Böhm dies at 101

Helmut jahn as a young man
In Remembrance

Helmut Jahn was an architect consistently ahead of his time

photo of an elderly woman wearing a red top
1921 – 2021

Canadian landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander dies at 99

Paulo Mendes da Rocha receiving a medal
1928 - 2021

Pritzker prize winner Paulo Mendes da Rocha passes away at 92

Terence riley, a gruff looking man against a photo of a model house
1954 - 2021

Terence Riley, former Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the MoMA, is dead

A man, art gensler, against an office wall
1935 - 2021

Art Gensler passes away at 85

Helmut jahn in a black and white photo amid towers
1940 - 2021

Helmut Jahn dead at 81 after fatal bicycle crash

Front of a white museum with striations, which was funded by eli broad
1933 - 2021

Eli Broad, who helped build up Los Angeles’s cultural landscape, is dead at 87

a salt-shaped building in manhattan
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary

Michael Friedlander, longtime NYC Sanitation Department architect, dies at 63

exterior of a gilded age mansion in chicago
1942-2021

Chicago historic preservation champion Richard Driehaus dies at age 78

Photo of the advaney house design by hugh newell jacobsen
1929–2021

Modernist maestro Hugh Newell Jacobsen passes away at 91

Black and white photo of james nagle against the chicago skyline
RIP

James Nagle, one of the influential Chicago Seven, passes away at 83

b&w of the twin towers
1928–2021

Leslie E. Robertson, structural engineer of the World Trade Center, passes away at 92

paige rense, center, an older woman at a cocktail party
1929 - 2021

Paige Rense, who expanded Architectural Digest internationally, dies at 91

ernesto gismondi amid a selection of colorful lights
1931 - 2020

Ernesto Gismondi, founder of Artemide, passes away at 89

RIP

Jack Lenor Larsen, textile designer and founder of Long Island’s LongHouse Reserve, dies at 93

WIlliam menking, who passed away in 2020
In Memoriam

Remembering those we lost in 2020

portrait of landscape architect carol r. johnson
An Indelible Legacy

Pioneering landscape architect Carol R. Johnson passes away at 91

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