Jean Paul Carlhian at the site of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 1986 (photograph by Jeffrey Ploskonka)
The architect Jean Paul Carlhian, a 1975 Resident and the designer of the National Museum of African Art and Sackler Gallery of Asian Art, died on at his home in Concord, Massachusetts, on October 18. His passing was reported in the Boston Globe on November 30, 2012.
Carlhian was with the Boston firm Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott, and served on the faculty at Harvard University. He is coauthor of A New View from the Castle about the building Smithsonian's building boom at the end of the twentieth century.