1926-2020 A Bostonian born in 1926, Henry N. Cobb spent half of his seventy-year career as partner of a larger figure, Ieoh Ming Pei, and together they ran what for five decades was one of the most versatile and successful practices in American archi

The New York Times   Fred A. Bernstein   Henry N. Cobb, who in 70 years as an architect — more than half of them in partnership with I.M. Pei — designed some of the country’s most prominent buildings, including Boston’s blue-glass John Hancock Tower, the tallest building in New England, die