Norman H. Pfeiffer, a founding partner of the New York–based Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (HHPA), died August 23 at his home in Los Angeles where he had established his own firm, Pfeiffer Partners, in 2004. He was 82. His wife of 44 years, Patricia Zohn, a writer, stated the cause was due to congestive heart failure, preceded by declining health.
Born in Seattle on November 13, 1940, Pfeiffer obtained a B. Arch. cum laude from the University of Washington in 1964. (As an architecture student, he still played shortstop and second base for the university’s baseball team, even if it meant taking his drafting board on the bus to the games). After graduating, Pfeiffer took off for Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where he received his M. Arch. in 1965. In search of a job after graduation, he perused architects’ names in New York City’s Yellow Pages and arrived unannounced at the office of Hugh Hardy, who died in 2017, and Malcolm Holzman.
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