Frank Williams (architect)
Frank Edward Williams ( born December 14, 1936 in Ashburn, Georgia, † February 25, 2010 in New York City ) was an American architect.
Life
Frank Edward Williams was the son of an engineer and a paralegal. He had five siblings. He completed his architectural studies in 1961 from the University of California, Berkeley, and then studied for four more years at Harvard University. Before he founded his own architectural firm with Frank Williams and Partners Architects, he taught four more years of architecture at Columbia University. In his four -decade career, he designed 20 skyscrapers in New York City and 16 other high-rise buildings in cities such as Hong Kong, Moscow, Seoul, Shanghai and Taipei.
On February 25, 2010 Williams died at the age of 73 of complications from esophageal cancer.