Sheldon Fox passed away at the age of 76

On the night from Saturday to Sunday, December 17, 2006, Sheldon Fox, a New York architect and co-founder of the firm KPF, passed away in his home in Fairfield. This firm was founded in 1976 and today has branches in New York, London, and Shanghai. Their success was based on a clear division of tasks among the three partners: Eugene Kohn was responsible for marketing, William Pedersen took on the role of chief architect, and Sheldon Fox served as the company's general manager. Their joint office is responsible for a vast number of skyscrapers built mainly in the USA. The firm's expressive means have always been aligned with prevailing fashion, and thus their portfolio includes examples of late modernism, neo-functionalism, and postmodernism. Fox left the firm a decade ago to retreat and only occasionally held lectures on management in architecture. Among the last projects developed at KPF under his leadership are the skyscraper DZ Bank in Frankfurt am Main (1993) and the main headquarters of the World Bank in Washington (1996). Link>