Chinese Landscape Architect and Educator Kongjian Yu Dies in Plane Crash in Brazil
✕ Kongjian Yu, founder of Beijing-based landscape architecture and urban design practice Turenscape, died in a plane crash late in the evening of September 23…
Architect and Planner Léon Krier Dies at 79
✕ Léon Krier, the controversial architect and planner who spearheaded the New Urbanism movement, died this Tuesday in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He was 79….
Architect Pierluigi Nicolin has Died
Architect Pierluigi Nicolin has died. He was 83. A leading figure in Italy of architectural criticism, pedagogy, research, and curation, Nicolin was born in 1941…
Tribute: M. Paul Friedberg (1931–2025)
✕ Landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg, celebrated for his revolutionary approach to designing in the urban public realm at a time when America’s cities—and their…
Tribute: Harry Wolf (1935–2025) | Architectural Record
✕ On February 5th, the distinguished American architect Harry Wolf died at his home in Porto, Portugal, at the age of 89. Born in 1935,…
Tribute: Yoshio Taniguchi 1937–2024 | Architectural Record
✕ Yoshio Taniguchi died on December 16. The cause, according to a statement by his Tokyo-based firm, Taniguchi and Associates, was pneumonia. He was 87….
Tribute: Remembering Those We Lost in 2024
✕ In 2024, the architectural community lost a Pritzker laureate who served as an important architectural bridge between the United States and Japan, a San…
