American-born cultural theorist, architect, and landscape designer Charles Jencks has died at age 80. Read tributes from Robert A.M. Stern, Paul Goldberger, and George Baird.
Pelli, who died on Friday, July 19, at the age of 92, saw architecture less as an outlet for personal expression than as a way to make a mark on cities.
One of the dominant American architects of major landmarks in this country and Europe—most notably the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris—has died at the age of 102.