Antoine Predock created buildings around the world — from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg to the College of Media and Communications in Qatar and public spaces like the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix and the Padres baseball stadium in San Diego.
Renowned architect Antoine Predock kneels next to a model of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in his studio in Albuquerque, N.M., April 30, 2018. Predock, whose list of credits includes award-winning buildings around the world, died Saturday, March 2, 2024, at his home in Albuquerque, according to longtime friends and colleagues. He was 87.
His projects would start with sketches and collages, a method that friends and colleagues say has helped to inspire younger generations of architects as they learn how to incorporate buildings into communities and create spaces that make visitors feel as though they are on a journey.That was Predock's motivation — for people to be moved when they walked into his buildings.
Appreciation and condolences were shared on Predock's social media pages not long after he died following a slowly progressing illness. He was known for sharing his sketches, along with photographs of his home's vantage point overlooking the Rio Grande valley and memories of his motorcycle adventures.
In nominating Predock for the American Institute of Architects’ award, then-committee chairman Thomas S. Howorth said: “Arguably, more than any American architect of any time, Antoine Predock has asserted a personal and place-inspired vision of architecture with such passion and conviction that his buildings have been universally embraced.”
Born on June 24, 1936, in Lebanon, Missouri, Predock studied engineering at the University of Missouri and then transferred to the University of New Mexico. He later graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. In 2017, Predock donated his studio and archives to the University of New Mexico, where he was a professor for decades.
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