Louis E. Fry, Sr., FAIA: The recent deaths of individuals at the forefront of architectural practice, education, and theory will be felt worldwide.

A practitioner and educator who was instrumental in training many African-American architects, Louis E. Fry, Sr., FAIA, died June 10 at age 97. A practicing architect in Washington, D.C., Fry was a founding member of the National Organization of Minority Architects and former chair of architecture departments at Tuskegee and Lincoln Universities. As the first architecture professor at Tuskegee, Fry initiated the architecture curriculum there in 1935. In association with Paul Rudolph, Fry designed the Tuskegee Chapel at Tuskegee University. A professor at Howard from 1947 to 1972, he designed that university's Douglass Hall and Founder's Library.