Photo courtesy Braden Toan Danforth Toan and his wife Jane Toan. Danforth W. Toan died on January 16 at the age of 94. He was an architect and founding partner of Warner Burns Toan & Lunde Architects & Planners in New York, now known as WBTL Architects. Many of Dan’s significant buildings in New York and around the world were college libraries and educational facilities, including Columbia University’s Hammer Health Sciences Center and New York University’s Warren Weaver Hall. His buildings transformed other campuses, including Brown University, where he designed the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library and the Science Tower,

In early November, more than 150 representatives of architecture and design organizations came to Chicago to hold the inaugural meeting of the Association of Architecture Organizations (AAO). Photo © Anne Evans More than 150 representatives of architecture and design organizations came to Chicago for the inaugural meeting of the Association of Architecture Organizations (AAO). Related Links: Nonprofits Grapple with Economic Woes Philly Opens a Center for Architecture AIA NY's Center for Architecture Opens Formation of the group culminated five years of discussions among members of a committee of design leaders led by Lynn Osmond of the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Representatives