Swiss architecture professor Kurt Walter Forster died of cancer on January 6 at his home in New York, aged 89. He is remembered for directing the doctoral studies program at Yale School of Architecture; his role as director of the Getty Research Institute (GRI) in Santa Monica, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, and Venice Architecture Biennale; and also for his tenure as a mentor to myriad renowned scholars at ETH Zurich.
Forster was born in Zurich in 1935, and later studied architecture in Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Florence, and London. Between 1960–67, he was a professor of architecture at Yale, and later
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