Obituary: Henry N. Cobb, 1926-2020

摘要

MODERNIST ARCHITECT Henry N. Cobb, a founding partner of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, known to friends as Harry, died March 2, 2020, one month before he would have turned 94. Born in Boston in 1926, Cobb was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College, before graduating from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1949. He co-founded an architecture firm in New York in 1955 with I.M. Pei and Eason H. Leonard. The firm's name changed from I. M. Pei & Associates to Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners in 1989. (I.M. Pei died last year at age 102, while James Ingo Freed died in 2005 at age 75.)