Mildred Schmertz, FAIA, died January 9, 2018, at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York from pneumonia after suffering a fall. She was 92. Schmertz was architectural RECORD's first female editor in chief—from 1985 to 1990—and the first woman to hold that title at any American professional architectural magazine. She spent 33 years on the staff of RECORD, and during her tenure, the publication won two National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors, in 1972 and 1977. The second of these honors was given for a special issue on human settlements that was supervised and written by Schmertz, a senior editor at the time.
She was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1977 and served as a commissioner of New York’s Landmarks Preservation Commission from 1988 to 1991. From 1997 to 2010, Schmertz was a contributing writer for Architectural Digest, and in recent years published freelance articles for other publications such as The Architect’s Newspaper.
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