Revered and beloved by the architects with whom he collaborated, Robertson, who died on February 11, may remain best known for engineering the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) with architect Minoru Yamasaki.
The structural engineer died February 11, 2021, at the age of 92. Read tributes from Guy Nordenson, Jayne Merkel, Carol Willis, James von Klemperer, and Eric Höweler.
The founder and chairman of global real estate firm Hines died August 23 at age 95. The visionary developer received a Lifetime Achievement Award from RECORD in 2013 for his patronage of architecture.
The historian of the City of Havana for more than 40 years, credited with the transformation of Old Havana into a showcase of exquisitely restored Spanish colonial architecture, died Friday, July 31.
The conceptual artist who, with his wife and partner Jeanne-Claude, transformed urban landmarks and swaths of nature with vastly ambitious installations, died in New York on Sunday at the age of 84.