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.
Howard Simpson, known for his engineering expertise in structural mechanics, died Jan. 23 at age 97. He was the last surviving founder of multidisciplinary consulting engineer Simpson Gumpertz & Heger.
Virginia Beach public utilities employee represented group’s esprit de corps in steering peers away from unimaginable act by a former city engineer; Cox died along with 10 employees and a visiting contractor.
The reality that more structures fail during construction than after completion spurred the forensic engineer, who died Jan. 3 in Manhattan, to champion the first load design standard for temporary and partially completed structures.
Structural engineer Nancy Hamilton, 60, known for leading and coordinating extremely complicated jobs—including JFK’s Terminal 4 and LGA’s Central Terminal Redevelopment phasing—died Oct. 24 from a gastrointestinal tumor.
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