Architect Neil Donald Anderson, former Associate Partner at SOM, died on September 28, 2014, in Evanston, Illinois. He was 74 years old.
Anderson began his 27-year career at SOM in 1963 after graduating from the University of Illinois. Shortly thereafter, he became a licensed architect and quickly rose to the roles of Associate in 1968 and Associate Partner in 1970. During his career in the firm’s Chicago office, he was responsible for a number of projects around the world, including LG Headquarters in Seoul, AT&T Corporate Headquarters in Chicago, One Shell Plaza in Houston, and Hotel Arts in Barcelona.
After leaving SOM in 1990, he began his own firm and won several notable commissions. Anderson also donated his expertise to the development and expansion of the Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, Haiti. Though he often traveled abroad for work, his life was largely spent in and around Chicago, where he was born on February 26, 1940.
Memorial donations can be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston or to the NorthShore Foundation’s DodoNA Project for Parkinson’s Research.