Marshall D. Meyers, FAIA, died in Pasadena, Calif., August 12 after a brief struggle with cancer. He was 70.

Meyers served as the project architect for Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Forth, and completed the Center for British Art at Yale University after Kahn's death, for which Meyers won an AIA Honor Award in 1978.

During his association with Kahn from 1957–1973, Meyers worked on many major projects, including the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla; the Baltimore Inner Harbor project; and the University of Pennsylvania's Richard Medical Research Building. As an independent practitioner, Meyers designed the renovations to the Richards Medical Building, and the bookstore furniture in the main entrance gallery of the Kimbell museum.

Meyers served as a senior associate for Bower Lewis Thrower/Architects, Philadelphia, from 1985–1992. He was project architect for the Baltimore Museum of Art's Cone Wing, the Eugene Ormandy Memorial Listening Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt Library, and Philadelphia's Woodmere Art Gallery. Meyers joined the Pasadena office of Perkins & Will as a senior associate in 1999.

In addition to his design work, Meyers served as a lecturer and critic at the University of Pennsylvania's school of architecture from 1979–1988, and as an adjunct professor of architecture at Temple University from 1985–90. He lectured and wrote extensively about Kahn; his work was published in all the major architecture journals and in Garland Publishing Company's seven-volume The Louis I. Kahn Archive. A noted photographer, Meyer's works have been exhibited at shows in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and in many written works.

Meyers received his Bachelor of Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., and an MArch from Yale University. He was inducted into the College of Fellows in 1994. Meyer is survived by his wife and two daughters. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Architectural Archive, Attn., Julia Converse, Graduate School of Fine Arts, 102 Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104.

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