Related Links: Today's Critics Offer Tributes to Ada Louise Huxtable in Architectural Record Ada Louise Huxtable, the influential New York City-based architecture critic and winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for criticism, died there on Jan. 7 at age 91 of cancer, according to her attorney.“She set the standard for architectural criticism in our time,” according to the editors of Architectural Record magazine, which like ENR, is part of the McGraw-Hill Cos.As a longtime critic for The New York Times and later The Wall Street Journal, Huxtable “wrote penetratingly against the mindset of entitlement that allowed developers to remake cities
Related Links: Obituaries of other noted industry leaders and pioneers James N. Kise II, 75, a noted Philadelphia-based architect and urban planner, died Dec. 26 in Freeport, Maine, of a heart ailment. A principal and co-founder of Kise, Straw & Kolodner, he oversaw local projects that won national acclaim and overseas developments such as Guayana City, Venezuela, and Egypt's 241-sq-mi Sadat City. KISEKise oversaw several projects in historic Phiadelphia, including the 3.5-mile-long Avenue of the Arts in the city center district combining old and new cultural institutions and entertainment attractions.The American Planning Association named the eight-block stretch one of America’s great
Courtesy of O Empreiteiro Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, dead at 104, created the modern city of Brasilia and other iconic buildings around the world. Courtesy of government of Brazil As in this 1950s-era cathedral in Brasilia, Niemeyer's emphasis on curves pushed Brazilian engineers to new levels of innovation to accommodate the untested designs. Related Links: Architectural Record slideshow of Oscar Niemeyer's well known buildings Homepage (in English) of Brazil Construction Publication O Empreiteiro The idea of moving Brazil's capital to the undeveloped interior dated to 1789, but it took until 1957 for work to begin. Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, along
Related Links: 100 Years of Coal Age WilkinsonJoseph F. Wilkinson, a former managing editor of ENR in the 1960s and 1970s and an award-winning journalist, died on Nov. 28 in Brooklyn, N.Y., of cardiac arrest at age 87.Wilkinson joined ENR in the 1950s and was managing editor from 1969 to 1976."Joe was the first ENR staffer to be a Vietnam war correspondent," says ENR Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Arthur J. Fox. "At his own initiative, he also was the first and only ENR editor to visit Antarctica and report on activities there."Adds Fox, "Joe's writing was 'splendid,' a favorite word of
Related Links: Contractors Association of Greater New York "Walking Steel": 2004 Video Tribute to John Cavanagh UPDATE: A public memorial for John A. Cavanagh will be held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan on Jan. 24 at 3 p.m. CavanaghJohn A. Cavanagh admitted he was "scared to death" scaling high-rises as a young field engineer for a New York City contractor, but he ended up climbing to the heights of the city's tough construction business some 50 years later as a top company executive, the founder of a leading contractor bargaining group and an industry activist for union construction.Cavanagh died
Related Links: alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1950/PDFs/RSH%20Work%20History1.pdf Richard Holmgren career oral history for MIT HOLMGRENRichard S. Holmgren, who led the firm that was a key corporate precursor of engineering giant MWH Global, Broomfield, Colo., died on Oct. 31 in Santa Ana, Calif., at age 84.Holmgren, an MIT-educated civil engineer, joined James M. Montgomery Consulting Engineers Inc. (JMM) in 1958 as a sluice-gate designer on a California water treatment plant and went on to serve as its chief operating officer, president, CEO and chairman, retiring in 1993.While he was CEO in the late 1980s, the firm passed the $100-million mark in revenue.JMM merged with
Photo Courtesy of Roadway Worker Training Inc. Plane piloted by Crisafi (right) crashed Oct. 3, killing him and construction business associate Vaccarello in Gary, Ind. Related Links: Website of All-Railroad Services Corp. (Vaccarello) Website of Roadway Worker Training Inc. (Crisafi) Online obituary for Patsy Crisafi Federal investigators are continuing a probe into the crash of a private plane on Oct. 3 near Gary, Ind., that killed two Florida-based veteran rail construction executives, one of them the pilot. But a preliminary report offers few clues to the cause of the accident.Killed were Patsy J. "PJ" Crisafi, 48, co-founder and executive vice
Related Links: Website of All-Railroad Services Corp. (Vaccarello) Website of Roadway Worker Training (Crisafi) Online obituary for Patsy Crisafi Federal investigators are continuing a probe into the crash of a private plane on Oct. 3 near Gary, Ind., that killed two Florida-based veteran rail construction executives, one of them the pilot. But a preliminary report offers few clues as to the cause.Killed were Patsy J. “PJ” Crisafi, 48, co-founder and executive vice president of Roadway Worker Training Inc. and Vincent “Vinnie” Vaccarello, 45, co-founder and co-president of All Railroad Services Corp., both in St. Augustine.Crisafi was piloting the plane, a
Related Links: Website of the American Concrete Institute Eugene H. "Gene" Boeke Jr., a onetime jobsite water boy at Beers Construction Co., Atlanta, who became vice president of the firm and its successor, Beers Skanska, as well as a nationally recognized expert in reinforced-concrete construction, died on Sept. 29 in Roswell, Ga. He was 86.Boeke supervised construction of numerous major high-rise buildings in Atlanta and the Southeast. He also co-authored a 1980 book on advances in construction methods for the American Concrete Institute (ACI), a key concrete technology advocacy group based in Farmington Hills, Mich.Boeke was a vice president of
Related Links: Expanded obituary of John Lamberson LambersonJohn R. Lamberson, 79, former president of New York Stock Exchange-listed insurance broker Corroon & Black, founder of its construction practice and a 40-year industry insurance and surety veteran, died on Sept. 12 in Palo Alto, Calif.The cause was complications of cancer, says the National Academy of Construction, into which he was inducted in 2004.Lamberson left the firm in 1992, after its acquisition two years earlier by U.K.-based Willis, Faber & Dumas PLC. According to previous ENR coverage, the departure resulted in bitter litigation between Lamberson and the successor firm, Willis Corroon,
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