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Frank Owen Gehry, the most famous architect in the world since the opening of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain in 1997, died on Friday, December 5, 2025. He was 96.
Architect and photographer Gillian Hopwood, who moved from England to Nigeria in 1954 and practiced architecture with her husband, John Godwin, in Lagos for around 60 years, died on November 6, 2025. She was 97.
Robert A.M. Stern, the famed neotraditional architect, longtime dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and author of a series of definitive books on New York City architecture, died on November 27 at the age of 86.
Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu was in Brazil making a documentary film when, on September 23, a small plane he was in with the filmmakers crashed, killing all on...
Sir Terry Farrell, best known for designing the MI6 Building, the London headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service (and which made frequent appearances in James Bond films), died on September 28th at the age of 87.
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, the English architect best known for designing such high-tech buildings as the International Terminal Waterloo in London and the Eden Project in Cornwall, and the recipient of the 2019 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, died on September 14 at the age of 85.
Nikolaus Kuhnert played a decisive role in shaping German architectural discourse for decades: From 1972, the critical mind was part of the editorial team of the magazine ARCH+, founded in 1968, of which he became co-editor in 1982.
Michael Benedikt, the celebrated University of Texas at Austin professor and author of numerous books of architectural theory, died on August 13 at the age of 78.
A staunch opponent of modern architecture, Léon Krier designed mixed-use urban neighborhoods where everything was within walking distance. The traditionalist was a leading figure of postmodernism, but a lavish book on Albert Speer's architecture brought him into disrepute.
Her exhibitions launched architects' careers and built bridges between cultures. Few promoted the international architecture scene like Kristin Feireiss-Commerell. Her voice will be missed—but her legacy lives on in the hearts and minds of those she supported and inspired.
David M. Childs, a longtime partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), and most famously the lead designer of One World Trade Center, the tallest tower at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, died on March 26 at the age of 83.
Ricardo Scofidio, the New York City architect, educator, and co-founder of the influential interdisciplinary practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro, died on March 6, 2025, at the age of 89.
Japanese architect Hiroshi Hara, best known for two buildings completed in the 1990s — the JR Kyoto Station Building and the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka — died on January 3, 2025, at the age of 88.
Yoshio Taniguchi, the celebrated Japanese architect best known for the design of museums, including the 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died on December 16, 2024, at the age of 87.
Joseph Rykwert, the esteemed architectural historian and recipient of the 2014 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, died on October 18, 2024 at the age of 98. Here we present two video interviews — one from 2020 and one from 2017 — in which Rkywert recounts certain formative events of his life.
Fredric Jameson, the literary and cultural critic and longtime professor at Duke University, died on September 22 at the age of 90. Best known for the 1991 book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Jameson was influential in architectural circles for making...
Best known for the Graz Kunsthaus, which he designed with Sir Peter Cook, Colin Fournier was also a professor of architecture, was involved in the design of the Parc de la Villette, was a member of the avant-garde group Archigram, and planned entire cities. He died in Paris on September 4,...
Alexandros Tombazis, who was considered the father of bioclimatic architecture in Greece and espoused a “less is beautiful” approach to architecture, died on June 24 at the age of 85 following a long illness.
Fumihiko Maki, the celebrated Japanese architect who was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993, died of natural causes at his home in Tokyo on June 6. He was 95.
Gaetano Pesce, the Italian architect and designer who “revolutionized the worlds of art, design, architecture and the liminal spaces between these categories” over six decades, died on Thursday, April 4, at the age of 84.
Richard Serra, the artist known for monumental sculptures made with large plates of weathering steel that required people to move around them to fully experience them — making him a favorite of many architects — died at his Long Island home on Tuesday, March 26, at the age of 85.
José Oubrerie, the French architect who worked in the studio of Le Corbusier and completed the Saint-Pierre Church in Firminy four decades after the death of Le Corbusier, died on March 10 at the age of 91. Oubrerie was the last living apprentice of Le Corbusier.
Antoine Predock, the architect known for buildings in the American Southwest and who called New Mexico his “spiritual home” for 70 years, died in early March at the age of 87.
Finnish architect Juha Leiviskä, known for a series of stunning churches with light-filled interiors in his native country, died on November 9, 2023, at the age of 87.
Swiss-born architectural historian Kurt Forster, who held positions at the CCA, Getty Center, and ETH Zurich, among other institutions, died at his home in New York City on January 6 at the age of 89.
Rob Krier, the influential architect, author, and sculptor who was born in Luxembourg and spent much of his life in Germany, has died at the age of 85.
Anthony Vidler, architectural historian and former dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, died on October 19 at the age of 82. And on October 25 artist Robert Irwin, known for site-specific, architectural interventions, died at the age of 95.
Canadian architect, educator, and theorist George Baird died in Toronto on October 17, 2023, at the age of 84. His death was announced by the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, where he formerly served as dean.
Landscape architect Harriet Pattison, a collaborator of Louis Kahn and mother of his only son, died on October 2 at the age of 94; and Andrea Branzi, the designer and cofounder of Archizoom, died on October 9 at the age of 84.
Beverly Willis, the artist, self-taught architect, filmmaker, and untiring proponent of women in architecture, died on October 1, 2023, at the age of 95.
Zvi Hecker, the “Bad Boy of Israeli Architecture” (according to Haaretz, at least) who was born in Poland, immigrated to Israel in 1950, and moved to Germany in 1991, died at his home in Berlin on September 24, 2023, at the age of 92.
Canadian landscape architect Claude Cormier died on September 15, 2023, at the age of 63. One month earlier, Cormier spoke with The Cultural Landscape Foundation for a forthcoming oral history project. Upon his passing, TCLF released a clip from the project in which Cormier revisits a...
Author, critic, curator, and editor Peter Buchanan died on August 23, 2023, at the age of 80 following a bout with cancer.
Jean-Louis Cohen, the French architectural historian and longtime professor of architectural history at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts died unexpectedly on August 7, 2023.
British architect Michael Hopkins, recipient of the Royal Gold Medal in 1994 with his wife Patty, died on June 17, “peacefully” and “surrounded by his family,” per Hopkins Architects. He was 88.
Paolo Portoghesi died on May 30 at his home in Calcata, a medieval village north of Rome, at the age of 91. Though a prolific architect, historian and educator, Portoghesi will forever be known as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale who created the Strada Novissima.