Henry N. Cobb

Henry N. Cobb (born April 8, 1926, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American architect and founding partner with I.M. Pei of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, an international architectural firm based in New York City.

Cobb attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and returned to Harvard from 1980 to 1985 to be chairman of Harvard's Department of Architecture.^[1] He has received honorary degrees from Bowdoin College and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. In 1983, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician, and became a full Academician in 1990.

Cobb won the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's 2013 Lynn S. Beedle Award.^[2]

He lives in New York City and North Haven, Maine.

Notable buildings

Place Ville Marie in Montreal (1962)

John Hancock Tower, Boston (1976)

U.S. Bank Tower (center), Los Angeles (1990)

Some notable buildings for which Cobb has been principally responsible include:

• Place Ville Marie in Montreal (1962)
• Campus of the State University of New York Fredonia (1968)
• Harbor Towers, Boston (1971)
• John Hancock Tower, Boston (1976)
• Wilson Commons at the University of Rochester (1976)
• World Trade Center, Baltimore (1977)
• One Dallas Centre, Dallas (1979)
• Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, New Jersey (1983)
• ARCO Tower, Dallas (1983)
• Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine (1983)
• Pitney Bowes World Headquarters, Stamford, Connecticut (1985)
• Library Tower, Los Angeles (1989), now U.S. Bank Tower
• Credit Suisse First Boston headquarters at Canary Wharf, London (1992)
• UCLA Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (1995)
• John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse and Harborpark, Boston (1998)
• College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (1999)
• National Constitution Center, Philadelphia (2003)
• Hyatt Center, Chicago (2005)
• Palazzo Lombardia, Milano (2005)
• International Monetary Fund Headquarters 2, Washington, D.C. (2005)
• Center for Government and International Studies at Harvard University (2005)
• Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (2008)
• Torre Espacio, Madrid, Spain (2008)

References

• Profile of Henry N. Cobb provided by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

1. Harvard Design Magazine suporters
2. "2013 Lynn S. Beedle Award Winner"

External links

• Official website of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
• Special Report on the Boston Globe; "The Hancock at 30" includes Henry Cobb audio slideshow

Gallery

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  Johnson & Johnson Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ (1983)

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  Torre Espacio, Madrid, Spain (2008)