Alumnus and AA Member Navid Maqami, prolific New York architect and cofounder of S9 Architecture, has sadly passed away aged 59 after a yearlong battle with cancer. Born in Iran and raised in the United Kingdom from age 13, Maqami joined the AA in 1979. He studied two years under Stephen Gage from 1980 to 1982, and graduated in 1984 from Peter Cook and Christine Hawley’s Diploma Unit. He moved to New York in 1987, where he has been responsible for some of the city’s most celebrated projects of the last decade, including the recently completed Dock 72, towering 16 stories above the East River in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.