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

Hugh Stubbins
Born
Hugh Asher Stubbins Jr.

(1912-01-11)11 January 1912
Died5 July 2006(2006-07-05) (aged 94)
Alma materGeorgia Institute of Technology,
Harvard University
OccupationArchitect
PracticeHugh Stubbins and Associates
The Stubbins Associates
KlingStubbins
BuildingsCitigroup Center in New York

Biography

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Hugh Stubbins was born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and attended Georgia Institute of Technology 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 KlingStubbins.[1] The New York Times called his 1977 Citicorp Center "by any standard ... one of New York's significant buildings."[2]

Stubbins died July 5, 2006, of pneumonia, at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2]

Recognition

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The food court at Citigroup Center is named for Stubbins

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.[3]

Works

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Selected works (chronologically)
Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center, Brandeis University (1959)
Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University (1970)

Among the buildings he designed:

References

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  1. ^ "History — A Legacy of Design and Technical Innovation". KlingStubbins. Archived from the original on 2007-01-02.
  2. ^ a b "Hugh Stubbins Jr., 94; Architect of Icons". Washington Post. AP. 12 July 2006. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  3. ^ Fabricant, Florence (7 September 2021). "A New Food Hall for Midtown". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 December 2023. Hugh Stubbins, the architect of a landmark skyscraper with an angled roof at Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street, now has his name emblazoned over the entrance to a spacious and soaring new food hall called the Hugh
  4. ^ "Town of Lexington Inventory of Historic Areas & Structures: Post 1940 Period". Town of Lexington Massachusetts. Archived from the original on 3 January 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b Bernstein, Gerald S (1999). Building & Campus: An Architectural Celebration of Brandeis University 50th Anniversary. Brandeis University Office of Publications. pp. 43–45, 77. ISBN 0-9620545-1-8.
  6. ^ "The New New Quad". Princeton University. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Hotchkiss, the Place by The Hotchkiss School - Issuu". issuu.com. 24 January 2012. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  8. ^ "Daniel Burke Library Turns the Page on 40 Years".
  9. ^ "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
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