Hans K. Sander *55

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Hans K. Sander died Feb. 2, 2004, in Princeton. He was 79.

Born in Berlin, Sander emigrated to the US in 1937. He attended Columbia and earned an MFA at Princeton's School of Architecture. He practiced in Princeton, designing numerous campus renovations. Beginning in the 1960s and extending to the early 1990s, Sander served on the Princeton Township Planning Board and then on the Princeton Regional Planning Board. As chairman much of that time, he was critical to the development of the community master plan. For his role in developing guidelines for design review boards, he was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Sander leaves behind a daughter, a son, and his partner, Yvonne Bleiman.

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