Kenneth Frampton pays tribute to the French-born educator and architect—a close collaborator of Le Corbusier—who died on March 9 in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Albuquerque-based AIA Gold Medalist made his mark on New Mexico and the American Southwest—and beyond—with high-profile cultural commissions and academic projects.
The San Francisco–based co-founder of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects is remembered as a mentor, a pioneer of sustainable design, and a firm believer that architecture should serve people of all backgrounds and abilities.
Affiliated with a number of institutions including Princeton, Cooper Union, Yale, and Brown, England-born Vidler was a towering figure in the world of architectural academia and thought.