Anne Tyng 1920 - 2011
Dezeen Wire: architectural theorist Anne Tyng, known for her professional and personal relationship with architect Louis Kahn, died on 27 December 2011 aged 91 - New York Times
Dezeen Wire: architectural theorist Anne Tyng, known for her professional and personal relationship with architect Louis Kahn, died on 27 December 2011 aged 91 - New York Times
Dezeen Wire: Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta has died at the age of 80. He was awarded the Praemium Imperiale earlier this year.
Dezeen Wire: Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple, has died, the company has announced. He was 56. Apple's homepage is today dedicated to a photo of Jobs (above) and, instead of product news, hosts a short statement which starts "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being".
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Dezeen Wire: British pop-art pioneer Richard Hamilton has died aged 89 - The Guardian
Dezeen Wire: Swedish textile designer Fanny Aronsen has died of cancer aged 55. More
Dezeenwire: British furniture designer Robin Day has died aged 95 - Guardian
Dezeenwire: German architect Günter Behnisch, founder of Behnisch Architekten, and has died aged 88. Via sueddeutsche.de
Dezeenwire: Nicolas Hayek, founder and chairman of Swiss watch company Swatch Group, has died in Biel, Switzerland, aged 82 - New York Times
Dezeenwire: Bill Mitchell, former dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT and one of the world's leading urban theorists, had died aged 65. MIT News has published an obituary.
Dezeenwire: New York designer Tobias Wong has died aged 35 - Core77
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Dezeenwire: British textile designer Lucienne Day died on January 30th, aged 93. Read her obituary in The Guardian.
Dezeenwire: The Los Angeles Times reports the death of celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman at his home in Los Angeles yesterday, aged 98.
"Julius Shulman, whose luminous photographs of homes and buildings brought fame to a number of mid-20th century Modernist architects and made him a household name in the architectural world, died Wednesday night," writes Claudia Luther. LA Times
Dezeenwire: Stephen Bayley writes the obituary of British designer David Mellor, who died on 7 May. The Guardian
Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems died in Prague yesterday, aged 71. See news reports for more info. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues.
Italian designer Ettore Sottsass has died aged 90, the New York Times reports (via dezain.net, via archinect).