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Postmodernism pioneer Robert Venturi dies aged 93
Pritzker Prize-winning American architect Robert Venturi, who spearheaded the postmodern movement with wife and partner Denise Scott Brown, has died aged 93 following a short illness. Venturi's death...
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Graphic designer Anthon Beeke dies aged 78
Dutch graphic designer Anthon Beeke, the creator of the 1969 Naked Ladies typeface, has passed away aged 78 following a stroke. Based in Amsterdam, Beeke was renowned for his provocative poster designs...
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Pioneering African-American designer Charles Harrison dies aged 87
Charles Harrison, the industrial designer who revolutionised the View-Master toy and the plastic trash can, has passed away aged 87. Harrison died on 29 November 2018 in Santa Clarita, California, from...
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Stockholm Design's Charlotte Wiking dies at 48
Inspirational business leader Charlotte Wiking, a key figure in Sweden's creative industries, has passed away after a short illness. Wiking, who at the time of her death was project managing the...
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Fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford dies at 62
British-Ghanaian fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford has passed away aged 62, after losing a three-year fight with cancer. The influential designer, who has dressed famous musicians including Bono,...
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Italian designer and theorist Alessandro Mendini dies
Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini, famed for designs including the Proust armchair and the Groninger Museum, has passed away aged 87. A key figure in the radical design movement of the...
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Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche dies aged 96
Pritzker Prize-winning architect and Eero Saarinen protégé Kevin Roche has passed away aged 96, leaving behind a "formidable body of work" including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Ford...
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IM Pei dies aged 102
Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei has passed away aged 102. The Chinese-American architect's death on 16 May was confirmed by his firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. His son, Li Chung Pei, told...
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Stanley Tigerman "giant of our time" dies aged 88
Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman, a founding member of the rebellious postmodern architecture group Chicago Seven, has passed away aged 88. Tigerman died yesterday following a battle with chronic...
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Pierre Keller, former director of Ecal and an "extraordinary force of...
Designers and students have paid tribute to Pierre Keller, the graphic artist and former director of Swiss design school Ecal, who died of liver cancer on 7 July. Keller directed the École Cantonale...
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Philip Freelon, "the most significant African American architect in recent...
Philip Freelon, the architect behind major cultural projects across the US, including Washington DC's National Museum of African American History and San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora, has...
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César Pelli, architect of Petronas Towers and Salesforce Tower, dies aged 92
Argentine-American architect César Pelli, renowned for designing landmark skyscrapers around the world, has died aged 92. The AIA Gold medal-winning architect was best known as the designer of the...
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Superstudio co-founder Cristiano Toraldo di Francia dies aged 78
Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, the Italian architect who co-founded the radical architecture and design firm Superstudio, has died at the age of 78. Toraldo di Francia started Superstudio in 1966 with...
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Biodynamic design pioneer Luigi Colani dies aged 91
German industrial designer Luigi Colani, renowned for his curvaceous product and transport designs, has died in his home country at the age of 91. Colani was best known for the curved, organic forms of...
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Dutch typographer and graphic designer Wim Crouwel dies at 90
Wim Crouwel, the renowned Dutch graphic designer responsible for the identity of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum for more than two decades and founder of Total Design, has died aged 90. Dutch typographer...
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Architect, critic and Maggie's Centres co-founder Charles Jencks dies at 80
Charles Jencks, architecture historian, landscape architect and director of Maggie's Cancer Care Centres has passed away at the age of 80. Jencks is widely regarded as the leading thinker on...
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German industrial designer and "poet of light" Ingo Maurer dies aged 87
Ingo Maurer – the German designer whose playful, unexpected creations earned him the nickname "poet of light" – passed away yesterday at age 87. Over the course of five decades, Maurer...
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Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld dies
Karl Lagerfeld, the prolific fashion designer who turned around the fortunes of Chanel and Fendi, has died in Paris. Lagerfeld worked up until his death as artistic director of fashion houses Chanel...
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RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner Ted Cullinan dies aged 88
RIBA Royal Gold Medal winning architect Edward Cullinan, founder of Cullinan Studio, has passed away aged 88. Cullinan died in his sleep on Monday 11 November. The architect, who was known as Ted, was...
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SCI-Arc founding director and "unparalleled" architect Ray Kappe dies aged 92
SCI-Arc founding director and celebrated Californian modernist Ray Kappe has passed away aged 92, leaving behind "a body of architecture of the highest level". Kappe established the Southern California...
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