Charles B. Zucker *70

Charles Zucker, an architect and urban planner, died Feb. 5, 2010, five productive years after the detection of pancreatic cancer. He was 66.

Zucker received a bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1966 from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in architecture from Princeton in 1970. He then taught for several years at the City College of New York’s School of Architecture. In 1978, he became assistant director of the Design Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Starting in 1986, Zucker spent a decade with the American Institute of Architects, and was its senior director for Community Design and Development. Remaining in the Washington, D.C., area, he worked on several urban projects there.

At the time of his death, Zucker was senior urban designer for the city of Boulder, Colo. Boulder’s mayor, Susan Osborne, stated: “Charlie’s legacy in Boulder is real. The tangible evolution of our downtown in the past decade . . . [is] his gift to our community.” Robert Geddes, dean of Princeton’s School of Architecture, emeritus, wrote: “A comparison of his pioneering Princeton thesis project and his enormously successful work on the Boulder downtown tells a profound story of his intelligence, understanding, and compassion for urban communities during a lifetime of public service.”

Zucker is survived by his daughter, Sofya Low.

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