Gwathmey ARC '62, architect, dies at 71
NEW YORK — Charles Gwathmey ARC '62, the modernist architect who tenderly restored the Art & Architecture Building as the capstone of his career, died Monday in Manhattan. He was 71.
The cause was esophageal cancer, Gwathmey’s stepson, Eric Steel, told The New York Times.
Gwathmey, a principal of the New York firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, is best known at Yale for shepherding through the herculean renovation and expansion of the decaying Art & Architecture Building, the masterpiece concrete behemoth on York Street that was designed by Gwathmey’s former...
