Gyo Obata (1923 - 2022)

Born 28 Feb 1923 in San Francisco, California, United States

Died 8 Mar 2022 at age 99 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Gyo Obata is Notable.

Architect and designer of notable buildings

Gyo was born in 1923. He was the son of Chiura 佐藤 and Haruko 小橋. After being sent to an internment camp in WWII, he avoided it by leaving the School of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, to study architecture at the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, the only university in the United States willing to accept Japanese nationals at that time and where he earned his bachelor of architecture degree. He received his master's degree in architecture and urban design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was an architect and he co-founded the global architectural firm HOK (formerly Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum). He lived in St. Louis, Missouri. He was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

He passed away in 2022. ^[1]

Selected Design Projects

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois
• Alfred A. Arraj U.S. Courthouse, Denver, Colorado
• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas
• Moscone Center, San Francisco, California
• King Khaled International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Wrigley Company Global Innovation Center, Chicago, Illinois

Sources

1. ↑ Gyo Obata, famed St. Louis-based architect, dies at age 99. The Seattle Times. Accessed 4 Oct 2022.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Gyo Obata
• Wikidata: Item Q6318224, en:Wikipedia