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Friday, 07 July

Hugh Asher Stubbins Jr., 94

Professions: Architect for over 60 years; designed 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); chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s department of architecture; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and academician of the National Academy of Design.

Degrees: Bachelors of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology; Masters of Architecture ’35, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Quote: “The work of Hugh Stubbins is an impressive line of positive statements, an unusual interreaction of responsibility and talent.” — Marcel Breuer

Death: July 5, 2006, in Cambridge, Mass.

From the Boston Globe

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