Albert Szabo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Szabo

American architect

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1925

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 17-Dec-2003

Profession: teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Albert Szabo was an American architect, educator and artist.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 7, 1925, to Benjamin Szabo of Felso Viso, Hungary (1885-1964) and Jeanette Szabo (née Margolies) of New York, New York (1895-1980).
Szabo was a tenured professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
He co-founded the latter, together with Eduard Sekler in 1968.
He was author, with his wife, architect Brenda Dyer Szabo (1926-2017), of “Preliminary Notes on the Indigenous Architecture of Afghanistan” (Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1978) and, with anthropologist, Thomas Barfield, of, “Afghanistan: An Atlas of Indigenous Domestic Architecture” (University of Texas Press, 1991).
He died in Cambridge, MA on December 17, 2003.