Visionary, dead of cancer at age 86, created the distinctive Lakeshore East neighborhood and mentored new generations of architects and real estate professionals in the city. p>
Construction veteran and civil engineer who founded industry group that has mentored 1,500 students and raised $1 million for college scholarships, died Sept. 27.
Known as far back as the mid-1960s for a radical notion that the architect of the future would be a manager of many disciplines—among them engineering, psychology, politics, economics, ecology, art and technology— the industry pioneer died May 2 from complications from COVID-19 and congestive heart failure.
Engineer executed epic and controversial state water-power project, followed Ronald Reagan to D.C. as a Corps exec and mentored hundreds of water professionals.
Modernist architect Henry N. Cobb, a founding partner of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, known to friends as Harry, died March 2, 2020, one month before he would have turned 94.