A world-renowned French historian of architecture. A Pritzker Prize–winning Indian architect. A larger-than-life New York arts patron. A legendary Cooper Union professor. The founder of one of architecture’s most important feminist foundations. An Italian Superstudio designer.
These are just a few brief descriptors of the visionary architects, prolific thinkers, educators, designers, and writers who died in 2023 for whom AN published obituaries or tributes this past year.
As for those not mentioned below, AN editors hold in our thoughts the individuals who died this year due to injustice, violence, hunger, and simply the hands of time. Their memories will live on.
Anthony Vidler, 82
Architect, educator, philosopher
Andrea Branzi, 84
Archizoom cofounder
A. Eugene Kohn, 92
KPF cofounder
Beverly Willis, 95
Architect, pioneering women’s advocate
Bill Hellmuth, 69
Chairman and CEO of HOK
B.V. Doshi, 95
Pritzer Prize winner
Charles Munger, 99
Billionaire, windowless-building partisan
Claude Cormier, 63
Landscape architect
David Hewitt, 87
Architect, founder of HEWITT
Debora K. Reiser, 96
Architect, educator, mentor
George Baird, 84
Former Dean of the University of Toronto School of Architecture
Harriet Pattison, 94
Landscape architect
Ilya Kabakov, 89
Conceptual artist
Jean-Louis Cohen, 74
Architect, professor, educator, historian
Jeff Byles, 51
Former AN associate editor, author
Joan Davidson, 96
Philanthropist, preservation champion
Paco Rabanne, 88
Fashion designer
Paolo Portoghesi, 91
Architect, historian
Peter Buchanan, 80
Architect, critic, essayist, teacher
Rafael Viñoly, 78
Award winning architect
Raymond Moriyama, 93
Architect, social justice pioneer
Renée Gailhoustet 93
Social housing architect
Robert Geddes, 99
Former Dean of the Princeton School of Architecture
Robert Irwin, 95
Artist
Robert Mangurian, 82
SCI-Arc faculty member
Robin Guenther, 68
Perks&Will Healthcare studio lead
Thierry Despont, 75
Architect
Thomas Hacker, 81
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