An accomplished architect, Mike died May 10, 2012.
He earned a master’s degree in architecture at Harvard School of Design in 1956. He prepared for Princeton at the Belmont Hill School, majored in English, joined Quadrangle, and played JV football. He roomed with Neil Clements and Marshall Simonds. He married Katrina Boocock in his senior year.
After a year’s work in Boston, Mike went to Santa Fe to join Alexander Girard. In 1962 he and Katrina (“Tidey”) moved to Buffalo, where he co-founded Hamilton Houston Lownie Architects in 1969. While practicing successfully — restoring the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, among many projects — he also taught in the School of Architecture and Planning of SUNY Buffalo.
He and Katrina had four children, Douglas, Brett (who died in infancy), Katrina, and Philip. Katrina died in 1976 and in 1992 he married Susan F. Riordan.
Mike had many associations, but his personal enthusiasm was greatest for birding,as he wrote for The Book of Our History, when he was president of the Buffalo Ornithological Society. We offer our sympathy to Mike’s children and to Susan.