Hugh Asher Stubbins Jr. (January 11, 1912 – July 5, 2006) was an architect who designed several high-profile buildings around the world.

Biography

Hugh Stubbins was born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and attended

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before getting his master's degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design where he studied with Walter Gropius, a founder in Germany of the Bauhaus movement. He was to remain on the faculty there until 1972. He formed Hugh Stubbins and Associates. Its successor company, The Stubbins Associates, merged with Philadelphia-based Kling in 2007 to form

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. '' The New York Times'' called his 1977 Citicorp Center "by any standard... one of New York's significant buildings." Stubbins died July 5, 2006, of pneumonia, at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Recognition

In 2021, a spacious food hall named after Stubbins opened on the ground floor of Citigroup Center. The food court, named simply The Hugh, features 17 restaurants, bars, and food vendors.

Works

Among the buildings he designed: *1946 Stubbins family home, Lexington, Massachusetts *1957 Kongresshalle, Berlin, Germany *1952–1953 Lantern Hill Subdivision in East Lansing, Michigan *1959 Administrative buildings at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts: Irving Presidential Enclave, Gryzmish Academic Center, and Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center *1960

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, Harvard University *1960

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, Campton, New Hampshire *1964 The New New Quad, later known as Butler College, Princeton University (demolished) *1964 Coles Tower at

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, Brunswick, Maine *1965 Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School *1966

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at University of Massachusetts Amherst *1968 The Hotchkiss School, Main Building *1968 Forsyth Wickes Addition,

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*1968 Jadwin Physics Building, Princeton University *1968–1971 Johnson Library Center, Cole Science Center, Franklin Patterson Hall and Dormitories at Hampshire College *1970 Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University *1970 George Robert White Wing,

*1971 Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia (demolished 2004) *1972 Daniel Burke Library at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York *1973 Pusey Library, at 27 Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA *1976 Federal Reserve Bank building, Boston, MA *1976

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at Princeton University *1977 Citigroup Center in New York *1971 College Five, renamed Porter College, University of California Santa Cruz *1983

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in Cleveland *1984 PacWest Center in Portland, Oregon *1986 Treasury Building, Singapore *1988 Fifth Avenue Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *1988

Nashville City Center Nashville City Center is a 27-story Class A office tower in Nashville with 480,000 square foot and 800 structured parking spaces. Designed by The Stubbins Associates, Inc., it was completed in 1988. The logo for First Horizon Bank is at its peak. ...

, Nashville, Tennessee *1990 Salesforce Tower, Indianapolis, Indiana *1991

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in Simi Valley, California *1993 Yokohama Landmark Tower in Japan

References

External links

Official site
2007 archive * Emporis archive * Emporis archive
Lansing City Pulse article on Lantern Hill subdivision
1912 births 2006 deaths 20th-century American architects Artists from Birmingham, Alabama Georgia Tech alumni Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni Harvard University faculty {{US-architect-stub