During a yr described by immensurable decline, it is not shocking that our once-a-year In Memoriam list is, regrettably, lengthier than in a long time previous. In 2020, we lost advocates and teachers, vanguards and visionaries, innovators and educators, and these who made their very own special marks on the created natural environment in strategies big and compact.
The coronavirus pandemic, of system, performed a job in the 2020 listing, as it claimed the lives of a number of well known names from the planet of architecture and design and style such as the urbanist, architect, and wondrously prolific critic Michael Sorkin.
This year AN also missing 1 of our very own guiding lights: William “Bill” Menking, an educator and architectural historian who was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Architect’s Newspaper, handed away on April 11 next a prolonged struggle with cancer. He was 72.
Down below the excerpt from our tribute to Menking, penned by previous executive editor Matt Shaw, you’ll find the total record of obituaries, organized in alphabetical get, that we’ve posted in excess of the training course of the earlier 12 turbulent months. (The identify of every single individual is straight connected to their respective obituary/tribute.) For those not mentioned, we recall absolutely everyone who misplaced their life this year to disorder, injustice, violence, starvation, and the fingers of time.
Architectural historian and educator co-founder and editor-in-main of The Architect’s Newspaper
Wrote Matt Shaw, former govt editor of AN, in his tribute:
“We will proceed to rejoice the lifetime of Invoice Menking, who will be remembered as someone who was constantly in the proper location at the right time, agitating and connecting, respiratory life into no matter what was about him. Bill’s memory will stay on not only by the continued affect of The Architect’s Newspaper, Pratt, and Storefront, but also by way of all the life he touched with his mentorship and steerage.
Every person who arrived via the paper took some aspect of Bill’s pondering with them. For me, his influence is palpable: How to avoid the standing quo or the cliché. How to perform in and close to institutions. How to do extra with significantly less, and not be way too valuable. How to retain the social mission radical. Quite a few of my fellow tourists came by Invoice, including my Rockaways fishing buddy Walter Meyer and my Sunday pasta buddy James Wines, each, like Menking, similarly enthusiasts of everyday living and intellectual dialogue.
I cannot count the quantity of folks whose do the job I researched in architecture faculty that I finished up meeting by way of Bill in social circumstances, nor, I suspect, can many others. ‘Bill was a person who gave you every thing without inquiring anything at all in return. He was a connector of people today, tips and souls,’ explained Eva Franch I Gilabert, previous director of Storefront for Art and Architecture and now director of the Architectural Affiliation. ‘If I just designed a map of all the folks he connected me to, I would be able to make a portrait of a technology of idealist, truthful, generous, radical and eternally younger.’”
Dean of the Syracuse College University of Architecture (1990-2002)
Philanthropist, investor, and patron of the arts
Architecture and design editor
Architect and critic
Artist
Architect, activist, and civic chief
Architecture writer and critic
Professor emeritus, the University of Maryland University of Architecture, Setting up & Preservation
Founding dean, the College at Buffalo Faculty of Architecture and Scheduling
Architect and city planner
Architect, urban planner, and author
Founding dean and professor emeritus, the College of Maryland College of Architecture, Organizing & Preservation
Landscape architect and educator
Architect and educator
Architect and urban planner
Preservationist and creator
Previous AIA National president, previous dean of the School of Structure at North Carolina Condition College (1994-2005), president of the NewSchool of Architecture & Layout
Educator, architect, and previous dean of the Princeton University of Architecture (1982-1989)
Artist, futurist, and conceptual designer
Educator and architect
Photographer, professor at The Cooper Union
Architect and educator
Architect
Arts and architecture advocate, co-founder of the Museum of Present-day Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Architect and developer
Architect and city planner
Author and thinker
Architect
Architect, urbanist, author, and educator
