AN remembers the architects, designers, educators, mentors, and writers we lost in 2024
Architect’s Newspaper
Daniel Jonas Roche - December 23, 2024
A trailblazing African American architect in St. Louis. A world-renowned philosopher of postmodernism. Famous artists who worked with famous architects. Le Corbusier’s last living employee. A legendary downtown New York fashion designer. A U.S. President.
These are just a few brief descriptors of the visionary architects, educators, designers, artists, and writers who died in 2024 for whom AN published obituaries or tributes. See the names of the individuals listed below, and click to read more about their life and impact on the built environment.
Jimmy Carter, 100
39th U.S. President, Habitat for Humanity worker, National Park Service champion, environmentalist
Victor Lundy, 101
Designer, artist, and Sarasota School of Architecture pioneer
Joseph Rykwert, 98
Architectural historian
Iris Apfel, 102
Interior designer, furniture maker
Richard Serra, 85
Artist
Fredric Jameson, 90
Philosopher; professor; author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, 95
“California cool” graphic design visionary, landscape architect
Ralph Knowles, 95
Passive design pioneer
Milton Barragán Dumet, 90
Ecuadorian architect, educator, artist
Rene Gonzalez Ilustre, 84
California architect who worked for Frank Gehry
Charles Fleming, 86
St. Louis modern architect
Fumihiko Maki, 95
Pritzker Prize–winning Metabolist architect
Marsha Ann Maytum, 69
Founding principal of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, design justice advocate
Frank Stella, 87
Artist
Paul Auster, 77
Author, playwright
Gaetano Pesce, 84
Designer, architect
Debora K. Reiser, 96
Long Island modern architect, educator, mentor
Ernst Wagner
Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture founder
Yoshio Taniguchi, 87
Architect, leader of MoMA expansion
Jeffrey Beers, 67
Architect
José Oubrerie, 91
Architect, professor, former employee of Le Corbusier
Charles Thornton, 83
Engineer, cofounder of Thornton Tomasetti
Curtis Moody, 73
Founder of Moody Nolan, the country’s largest African American–owned architecture firm
Kurt Forster, 89
Scholar, professor, historian
Antoine Predock, 87
Architect, educator, artist
Carl Andre, 88
Minimalist artist, involved in the death of Ana Mendieta in 1985
Juha Ilmari Leiviskä, 87
Finnish architect
Eugene Aubry, 88
Texas architect
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