American architect Terence Riley, former chief curator of architecture and design at New York's Museum of Modern Art and founding partner of Keenen/Riley Architects, has passed away.
Riley had a 13-year tenure at MoMA followed by his work as a teacher and director for the Miami Art Museum, now the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
At MoMA, he staged blockbuster retrospectives on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and introduced foreign architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & de Meuron to the American public.
"He was an earnest, serious, brilliant curator"
Riley presided over a major expansion by Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi that was completed in 2004. The project saw the museum's architecture section moved out of a neglected side room and given a prominent place on the third floor of the new building. His firm Keenan/Riley Architects was known for designing museums and galleries including the Sarasota Art Museum and several projects in the Miami Design District.

"Shocked and so very sad to learn of the death today of Terry Riley, who meant so much to the architecture culture of both New York and Miami," architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote on Twitter.
"He was an earnest, serious, brilliant curator, designer, writer and friend to so many of us. The world is diminished."
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Riley was was born in 1954 and grew up in Woodstock, Illinois. He said he learned about architecture...