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Danforth Toan (1918-2013) was an architect known for 
Brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the ba ...
who specialized in college libraries across North America. As a founding partner at Warner Burn Toan & Lunde Architects, he contributed to the design of dozens of buildings at university campuses, most notably the Robarts Library
The John P. Robarts Research Library, commonly referred to as Robarts Library, is the main humanities and social sciences library of the University of Toronto Libraries and the largest individual library in the university. Opened in 1973 and n ...
at the University of Toronto and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library and the Sciences Library (Brown University)
The Sciences Library, nicknamed the "SciLi" (pronounced “sigh-lie”), at Brown University is a high-rise building in Providence, Rhode Island built in 1971 in the Brutalist style. At , it is tied with One Citizens Plaza as the 16th-tallest bui ...
at Brown University. He also designed the Olin Library at Cornell, Warren Weaver Hall at NYU, and the Hammer Health Sciences Center at Columbia. He also worked for Grumman Aircraft producing designs for the astronaut living quarters on what would become NASA's first space station, Skylab. "He changed the course of library design in the U.S.," said Rick Bell, executive director of the AIA New York Center for Architecture.
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