Richard S. Weinstein ’54

Richard S. Weinstein ’54, of Los Angeles, formerly of New York City; Feb. 24, from complications of Parkinson’s. He worked for architects I.M. Pei and Edward Larrabee Barnes and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome as a winner of the Rome Prize before joining the mayoral administration in 1966 as an advisor of the new Urban Design Group within the Department of City Planning in New York City. He helped plan and oversee the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in the mid-1970s, a project that hinged on the transfer of air rights, and he spent six years working on redevelopment along 42nd Street in Manhattan and saving the South Street Seaport. In 1985 he moved to Los Angeles to become dean of the architecture and urban planning school at UCLA. From 1995 to 2008 he was a professor of architecture and urban design. He founded the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies at UCLA, served on the jury for the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and was coadministrator of the architectural selection process for the new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. He immersed himself in political debates over architecture and planning in Los Angeles. He is survived by his wife, Edina; two sons; and two granddaughters.