Hugh A. Stubbins Jr.

One of the great master Architects of the latter half of the 20th Century, died on July 5, 2006 in Cambridge, MA at the age of 94. Born in Birmingham, AL, he is survived by his children Patricia Minot, Peter Stubbins, Hugh Stubbins III, Michael Stubbins and his grandchildren Adam, Kurt, Alexandra, Christopher and Samuel Stubbins, Diana Reilly, Peter, Judith and Benjamin Minot. He was a practicing Architect for more than 60 years who received his Bachelors of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. While maintaining his own practice he was on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, assuming Chairmanship of the Department of Architecture in 1953. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academician of the National Academy of Design. In 1975 he received the Gold Medal for Excellence in Design from Tau Sigma Delta, the National Honorary Fraternity for Architecture and Allied Arts. Just a few of his many noted designs are the Berlin Congress Hall (1958), City Corps Center (New York, 1978), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1983), and the Landmark Tower in Yokohama, Japan (1993). He also received many awards for his residential and educational projects earlier in his career. His work has been published in journals around the world, and he has won numerous awards for excellence in design. A longtime friend, Marcel Breuer, said of him, `the work of Hugh Stubbins is an impressive line of positive statements, an unusual interaction of responsibility and talent.' Services will be on Monday, July 10, at 11a.m. in First Parish Unitarian Church, Church St., Cambridge. Arrangements are by the William T. Hickey & Son Funeral Home, CAMBRIDGE.