Donald P. Ryder, New York architect and professor, has passed away
Donald P. Ryder, whose firm designed important repositories of Black culture and social history in becoming one of the nation’s most prominent partnerships of Black architects, died on Feb. 17 at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was 94. [...] Mr. Ryder joined with J. Max Bond Jr., widely regarded as the most influential African-American architect in New York, to form Bond Ryder & Associates in the late 1960s.During his partnership with J. Max Bond Jr., Donald P. Ryder left his mark as architect of several noteworthy residential and civic buildings, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. After leaving the firm which had merged with Davis, Brody & Associates in 1990, Ryder was a professor and later chairman of the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York.
Donald P. Ryder, whose firm designed important repositories of Black culture and social history in becoming one of the nation’s most prominent partnerships of Black architects, died on Feb. 17 at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was 94. [...] Mr. Ryder joined with J. Max Bond Jr., widely regarded as the most influential African-American architect in New York, to form Bond Ryder & Associates in the late 1960s.
During his partnership with J. Max Bond Jr., Donald P. Ryder left his mark as architect of several noteworthy residential and civic buildings, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. After leaving the firm which had merged with Davis, Brody & Associates in 1990, Ryder was a professor and later chairman of the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York.
