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Chicago architect Walter A. Netsch dies at 88; designed UIC campus and Air Force Academy chapel
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| Last Edited | COSDem Jun 24, 2008 01:57pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, June 15, 2008 07:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Walter A. Netsch, Jr., the maverick, strong-willed Chicago architect whose geometrically complex buildings, including the University of Illinois at Chicago campus and the U.S. Air Force Academy chapel in Colorado, departed from glass-box orthodoxy and both delighted and frustrated their users, died Sunday at his home in Chicago.
Mr. Netsch, 88 years old, served as a controversial Chicago Park District board president under the late Mayor Harold Washington and later drew widespread notice as the husband of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dawn Clark Netsch. At the time, it was said, Mr. Netsch might become Illinois’ first “first husband.”
The cause of death was pneumonia, his wife said Sunday. “It was peaceful.” |
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