The German architecture curator, writer, and editor Kristin Feireiss has passed away at 82 years of age. She studied art history and philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. In 1980, she and Helga Retzer founded the Aedes Archite
David M. Childs has died at the age of 83. A partner at SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) since 1971, the American architect designed One World Trade Center, the 541.3-meter (1,776-foot) tower that rose on the spot where the twin towers destroyed
The architect Rafael Olalquiaga Soriano has passed away at 85 years of age. Born in Bilbao in 1939, Olalquiaga began his professional career in 1963, when he graduated from Madrid’s School of Architecture, and in 1967 he earned his doctorate in the s
Ricardo Scofidio has died at 89 years of age in Manhattan. In 1981 he and his wife, Elizabeth Diller, opened Diller Scofidio, which Charles Renfro joined as a partner in 2004. Works that the firm DS-R has built in New York City include the High Line,
In the cold Madrid winter we lost Helga de Alvear, whose life revolved around love and generosity, words not much appreciated in these materialistic times. From her first collection of stones that she would pick up in the River Nahe as a child in Ger
Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of Ismaeli Muslims, has died at the age of 88 in Lisbon. Born in Geneva (Switzerland) in 1936, throughout his life he did not only carry out programs in key fields like education, healthcare
The British architect Dennis Crompton has died at the age of 89. A founding partner of Archigram (with Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Ron Herron, David Greene, and Michael Webb), Crompton devoted himself to preserving the group’s legacy after it dissoved
David Lynch, who has died aged 78, was the most original film-maker to emerge in postwar America, as well as the greatest cinematic surrealist since Buñuel. His understanding of desire, fantasy and dread was unparalleled; the Paris Review called him
It happens with the finest of masters that the footprint they leave is silent but indelible. Hence, in the very different trajectories of Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto, one can track the teachings of Hiroshi Hara, who understood practice, reflection,
Yoshio Taniguchi has passed away at 87 years of age. The Japanese master completed post-graduate studies at Harvard, and worked with Walter Gropius and Kenzo Tange before founding his own studio in 1975. He is the author of the emblematic expansion o
Frank Auerbach’s paintings, each one wrested from chaos over weeks and months of struggle, place the artist firmly in the English tradition stemming from Constable, who had the same feeling for the material world and the materials of art. Auerbach’s
The Italian architect Alberto Ponis has died at the age of 91. Born in Genoa in 1933, he completed his architecture studies in Florence in 1960. Shortly afterwards he moved to London, where he worked with Ernö Goldfinger and later with Denys Lasdun,
Joseph Rykwert died on 18 October at 98, breaking the thread that for a half-century has guided architects in the labyrinths of history. Born in Warsaw in 1926 and evacuated with his family to England at the outbreak of World War II, Joseph studied a
Just like Beatriz de Moura and Esther Tusquets, Rosa Regàs belonged to a generation of rich kids – cultivated and naughty at the same time – that made Barcelona a haven of freedom and creativity in the death throes of the dictatorship. A woman of gre
His photograph of five young people lounging on the Brooklyn waterfront as smoke engulfed Manhattan mesmerized viewers and stirred controversy. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the photographer Thomas Hoepker was following the instincts of a lifetim
Video artist who melded the material and the spiritual and applied modern technology to Renaissance subjects. In 1957, on a family holiday, Bill Viola fell in a lake. He was six years old. Sixty years later, Viola, who has died aged 73, recalled the
Luís Ferreira Alves, fotógrafo de arquitectura falleció en julio de 2022. El documental Luís Ferreira Alves: Um Olhar Construído pretende establecer una conexión entre su obra, especialmente como fotógrafo de arquitectura, y la Escuela de Arquitectur
Paul Chemetov has died at 95 years of age. A militant communist and a prolific builder of social housing developments, the French architect set up a practice with Borja Huidobro in 1983. The work for which he will most be remembered, the Ministry of
The Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki has died in his Tokyo home at the age of 95. Born in 1928 in Tokyo, Maki graduated from architecture school there and worked with Kenzo Tange. He pursued further studies in the United States, where he collaborat
Javier Manterola always went the extra mile. Mentor to us all, he infected us with his love for bridges, his daring to push farther, his search for new paths, and his aesthetic sensibility. He left us on 11 May at the age of 87, leaving us his ideas,
The French architect, professor, and historian Jacques Lucan died on 8 October, leaving a body of work characterized by the link he maintaned between professional practice and academic reflection. He wanted to do history and theory ‘from the drawing
José Luis Romany was a deeply religious man, not only in the faith he professed but also in the open, kind way with which he treated everyone, a far cry from hierarchies, in solidarity with the world’s disinherited and dispossessed. This silent fervo
Today I sing of your profile and grace. Of the maturity of your understanding. (Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, Federico García Lorca) Antonio Fernández Alba would have deserved a poet to be present in this sad ceremony of farewells, because his b
