Roberto Ercilla was an energetic defender of good architecture in a world where the profession is undervalued. His works –oozing elegance, refinement, and precision – have done much to build the orderly and highly livable city that is modern Vitoria,
The American architect Antoine Predock passed away on 2 March at the age of 87. Born in Lebanon (Missouri) in 1936, he earned his architecture degree from Columbia University in 1962. Five years later he set up his practice in Albuquerque (New Mexico
Balancing on the diving board of his pool while addressing Getty Center scholars during a farewell dinner in the summer of 1990. That is how I wish to remember Kurt Walter Forster, the great Swiss architectural historian who died on 6 January in his
Legendary photographer and long-time Magnum member Elliott Erwitt has passed away at the age of 95. Elliott Erwitt was born Elio Romano Ervitz to Russian-Jewish parents in Paris in 1928. He spent his childhood in Milan, and emigrated to the US in 193
The British historian, theorist, and critic imparted his brilliant teachings as a professor in universities in the United States for over half a century …
The photographer of Sicilian origins had a sharp eye for capturing the most human and the most emotional dimensions of the places he visited …
One night more than fifteen years ago (we were both still active), I had a bad dream: I had to write an obituary for Andrés Perea and was pressed for time. The stress eventually woke me up and I was much relieved. Arriving at School, the first person
The theorist of classicism Rob Krier passed away in Berlin on 20 November at 85 years of age. Like his younger brother Léon Krier, he defended his traditionalist convictions through drawing, and both added a great deal of graphic eloquence to buildin
The death of Andrés Perea has made orphans of a good number of Spanish architects: those who found in his ethical and intellectual position, in his work, in the pedagogical methods he promoted, and in his defense of plural access to the profession th
Anthony Vidler, the architectural historian and critic who was professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, was the author of books including Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism and Th
As an architect, scholar, educator and mentor, his contribution to the discourse around and practice of architecture was profound, progressive and international in its reach... University of Toronto: Former dean George Baird passes away at 84
Harriet Pattison, a noted landscape architect whose projects included the grounds of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and the memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt on Roosevelt Island in New York City, both of them collaborations with the architect L
The architect and designer Andrea Branzo has died at the age of 84. He was born in Florence in 1938, and in 1966, with Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, and Massimo Morozzi, he founded Archizoom Associati, an experimental design group known for its
Expert on hybrid structures, honored with the National Engineering Award, and author of twenty-six bridges and an endless list of works with architects like Foster, Isozaki, Ando, Pei, Navarro Baldeweg, García de Paredes, Cruz & Ortiz or Miralles, Ju
Zvi Hecker has died at the age of 92. "I am an artist whose profession is architecture." That is how the Israeli architect, painter, and designer defined himself. His built works include the Heinz-Galinski-Schule in Berlin, the Jewish Center in Duisb
José Manuel Pérez Latorre has died at the age of 76. The architect from Zaragoza built in his city, among other works, the Zaragoza Auditorium -for which he won the National Architecture Award- the ICCAA Pablo Serrano or the Ámbar brewery.
Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who gained worldwide fame with his sculptures and paintings of corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91. His works feature outsized people and animals. But Botero also tackled politics and other serious subjects.
John Francis Charlewood has died at the age of 96. The author of Freedom to Build (1972) and Housing by People (1976), the British architect and theorist is known for his work on self-build housing and urbanism in relation to users.
The emeritus professor and academician of San Fernando and San Quirce has died at the age of 81. He leaves an extensive bibliographical work and an indelible mark on the Castilian city of Segovia.
Architect Raymond Moriyama, co-founder of Moriyama Teshima Architects, passed away at the age of 93 on September 1, 2023. Moriyama’s legacy includes the design of several prominent buildings across the globe, including the Canadian War Museum, Ontari
August was more cruel than April. The suffocating heat and the fires burned up media covers, but the heart of architecture froze at the news of the death of Jean-Louis Cohen and Peter Buchanan, a Frenchman and a Briton who contributed to the discipli
The critic Peter Buchanan passed away on 23 August in London at 81 years of age. He was born in Malawi and graduated as an architect from the University of Cape Town, city where he started in the profession. In the 1970s he moved to London to work at
An allergic reaction put a sudden end to the life of Jean-Louis Cohen last 7 August, just months after the demise of his wife, the sociologist Monique Eleb. Born in Paris and trained as an architect, he was an expert on the Soviet world, although his