Gino Strada believed health care was a human right. People often wondered why Gino Strada led the life he did. With his skills as a heart-and-lung surgeon, trained not only in his native Milan but at Stanford and Groote Schuur, in South Africa, he co
Lightness characterizes the work of the German engineer Jörg Schlaich, who passed away on Saturday, 4 September, at 86 years of age. Aiming for weightlessness makes it possible to reduce materials and dimensions, but it also to make the most of resou
On 30 June, the architect Roberto Valle passed away at the age of 70. He was born in Orense, studied in Madrid and Valladolid, and made the latter his home, setting up a practice there after his 1976 graduation and serving the provincial government f
A key figure in the past four decades of Spain’s museum world, the art historian and critic Tomás Llorens Serra, born in Castellón province, died on 10 June, bequeathing to memory his efficient management of three of the country’s most important cult
At the venerable age of 101, the German Gottfried Böhm passed away on 9 June. Belonging to a veritable lineage of Cologne architects – he was the grandson, son, and later husband and father of professionals in the field – Böhm began his career follow
1941-2020 A father of ‘radical architecture’ and coauthor of one of the most influential architectural visions of the second half of the 20th century, the Continuous Monument, Adolfo Natalini died on 23 January 2020 at 78 years of age. A graduate of
1942-2020 In all probability, without Eusebio Leal, Old Havana would have suffered the fate of other historic quarters: degradation, if not outright demolition. Born in the Cuban capital in 1942, Leal was an autodidact who after Castro’s revolution w
1923-2020 The Hungarian-born French architect and urban planner Yona Friedman – perhaps the last of the great utopian masters of the 20th century – passed away in Paris on 21 February 2020 at the age of 96. After World War II, when being Jewish almos
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
1929-2020 He who some critics called the “silent artist” – due to both his personal discretion and his objectivist idea of art – passed away at 91 years of age in the Córdoba of his birth. Having studied architecture, in his native city he co-founded
1937-2020 The designer, bibliophile, and art collector Franco Maria Ricci expired on 10 September in La Magione, the house-archive near his native Parma where, encouraged by Jorge Luis Borges, he built a mythical labyrinth. He was born in 1937 into a
