Dead Architects

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2 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Yeah his name somehow rings a bell too… apparently he’s most famous for his work on the Abraxas complex in Noisy le grand and worked a lot in France 

 

 

Interesting, but I don't think I've ever actually been to Noisy Leg - as we always call it from the abbreviated signs on the motorway    It conjures up an amusing image in English.

 

No,  this must be what I was thinking of.  Church in Andorra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Meritxell

 

[prussianblue 1,027]

People may recognise Les Espaces d'Abraxas in Noisy-le-Grand from its use as a location in Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985): https://youtu.be/0gVnQ_KnKVg

 

Also used more recently for one of the Hunger Games films.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Earl Swensson, the man responsible for some of the most iconic buildings around Nashville, has died. The prolific architect was 91 years old.

One of his signature designs is the AT&T Tower, better known locally as the Batman Building due to its unique shape that bears a striking resemblance to the caped crusader.

Other well-known buildings around Nashville that can give credit to Swensson and his architecture firm include the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Centennial Medical Center and the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, and many more. 

Swensson's death comes three weeks after his late wife,

SC

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Gyo Obata (wiki) a american architect has died at 99

 

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British-American architect Christopher Alexander (Wiki) dead at 85

 

Alexander was elected to the Society of Fellows, Harvard University 1961–64; awarded the First Medal for Research by the American Institute of Architects, 1972;  elected member of the Swedish Royal Academy, 1980; winner of the Best Building in Japan award, 1985; winner of the ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) Distinguished Professor Award, 1986 and 1987;  invited to present the Louis Kahn Memorial Lecture, 1992; elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996; one of the two inaugural recipients of the Athena Award, given by the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), 2006 ;. awarded (in absentia) the Vincent Scully Prize by the National Building Museum, 2009; awarded the lifetime achievement award by the Urban Design Group, 2011; winner of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, 2014 and 1994 Seaside Prize recipient.

 

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The Berlin architect Ursulina Schüler-Witte, who, together with her husband Ralf Schüler, decisively shaped the face of West Berlin with their buildings after the Second World War, is dead. The architect died in May at the age of 89. Together they designed brightly colored buildings in the 1960s and 1970s in the typical Pop Art style, such as the Schloßstraße underground station in Steglitz with its blue, yellow and orange-colored wall elements or the iconic orange and red tower restaurant in Steglitz, better known as "Bierpinsel" and the International Congress Centrum (ICC).

https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article235857537/Trauer-um-Berliner-ICC-Architektin-Ursulina-Schueler-Witte.html

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Vlado Milunić, who co-designed Prague's Dancing House with Frank Gehry, has died. He was 81.

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/architect-of-prague-s-dancing-house-vlado-milunić-dies-at-81-1.6072868

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Etienne Gaboury, architect of the Royal Canadian Mint, the Canadian embassy in Mexico and many other buildings, has died. He was 92.

 

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/2022/10/15/manitobas-greatest-architect-dies-at-92

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On 4 November 2022, after a long illness, passed away - Nikolai Žlobo - Belarusian landscape architect.

 

He designed and participated in the reconstruction and restoration of the palace and park ensemble in the town of Nesvizh - one of the estates of the Lithuanian dukes Radziwill. 

 

After the war, the complex of buildings operated as a sanatorium. The park, where 1500 Jews from the local ghetto were shot and buried in 1941, was abandoned. During the reconstruction in 1965, the remains were exhumed and reburied in the city cemetery.

 

Nesvizh Castle Park is now a favourite resting place for townspeople and tourists.

 

Belarusian Union of Architects

[gcreptile 10,967]

German architect Meinhard von Gerkan dead at  87:

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/starb-in-hamburg-stararchitekt-meinhard-von-gerkan-mit-87-jahren-gestorben-8953066.html

 

Prominent for constructing the Berlin airports, good and bad, then extremely prolific all over the world, e.g. Shanghai or World Cup stadiums in South Africa.

The activity of his business concealed his ill health to me.

[drol 11,944]

Ancient Japanese archistar Arata Isozaki dead at 91.

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13 minutes ago, drol said:

Ancient Japanese archistar Arata Isozaki dead at 91.

He is a DDP pick: 

https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_I.html#isozaka022

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Indian archistar B. V. Doshi dead at 95.

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1 hour ago, drol said:

Indian archistar B. V. Doshi dead at 95.

Pritzker Prize winner and yet a miss for us.

[The Old Crem 3,583]

Graham Winteringham, English architect who designed buildings such as the crescent theatre in Birmingham has died aged 99. Obit

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3 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

Graham Winteringham, English architect who designed buildings such as the crescent theatre in Birmingham has died aged 99. Obit

A man who dreamed about erections!!!

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39 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

Graham Winteringham, English architect who designed buildings such as the crescent theatre in Birmingham has died aged 99. Obit

 

List of the Missed. On the DDP last year.

[The Old Crem 3,583]

Robert Geddes, American, former principal of the firm Geddes Brecher Qualls Cunningham, has died aged 99. NYT

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Renowned Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Viñoly, dead at 78. Most famous in the UK for London's Walkie-Talkie office building, which used to melt nearby cars.

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1 hour ago, prussianblue said:

Renowned Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Viñoly, dead at 78. Most famous in the UK for London's Walkie-Talkie office building, which used to melt nearby cars.

Rafael Vinoly is a DDP pick so here's yer QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-11819045/Rafael-Vinoly-architect-known-unique-structures-dead-78.html

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16 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Rafael Vinoly is a DDP pick so here's yer QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-11819045/Rafael-Vinoly-architect-known-unique-structures-dead-78.html

And that theme team only has 19 names.  So a welcome hit I’m sure.

[YoungWillz 21,037]

Report of the death of Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, conservation architect of the Balmoral Estate and also of Sunninghill Park (former home of the Duke of York): 

 

[The Old Crem 3,583]

Janez Gorišek, Slovenian civil engineer, constructor, and architect has died aged 89. Obit

[YoungWillz 21,037]

Report of the death of US architect, Eric Lloyd Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright Jr and grandson of the famed Frank Lloyd Wright: https://savewright.org/in-memoriam-eric-lloyd-wright/

 

He was 93. Famously involved in restoring some of his grandfather's projects as well as working on the Guggenheim Museum, New York, as well as other projects mainly in California and Pennsylvania.

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Paolo Portoghesi, Italian architect, architectural academic, theorist and historian, dead at 91. Designed the main mosque in Rome (largest in Europe, apparently), and was head of the architecture section of the Venice Biennale for several years.

 

Article/obit in Italian: https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2023/05/30/news/e_morto_larchitetto_paolo_portoghesi_fu_direttore_della_biennale_e_invento_il_borgo_di_calcata-402477650/