Richard Foster (architect)

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Richard T. Foster was a modernist architect who worked in the New York area, and also around Greenwich, Connecticut, often in partnership with Philip Johnson, including the Glass House located in New Canaan, Connecticut. He was educated at the Pratt Institute.

He founded the company Richard Foster Associates. His work includes:

• the Meyer Hall of Physics
• the New York State Theater (1964)
• the New York State Pavilion at the 1964/1965 World's Fair
• the Kline Geology Laboratory and Kline Biology Tower at Yale (1965/1966)
• the Kreeger Museum in Washington D.C. (1967)
• the Bobst Library at New York University (1972)
• Tisch Hall at Stern School of Business (1972)
• the Hagop Kevorkian Center at New York University (1973)
• the Eastman Dental Center at the University of Rochester (1978)
• the Hatch Interdenominational Chapel at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center.

Richard T. Foster died on 13 September 2002.