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In Memoriam
Claude E. Menders, AIA
Principal,
1979-2003
Claude Emanuel Menders, Architects Inc. mourns the loss of
its founding principal, Claude Emanuel Menders.
Claude Emanuel Menders was born in Neuvec, France and relocated
to the United States as a young man, where he attended Carnegie Mellon University,
receiving his Bachelor's degee in Architecture and a multitude of design
awards. As a young designer, Claude's career was shaped by his work
for the Peace Corps in Grenada and later work with the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Claude was empolyed as an Architect, and later Principal,
for the Cambridge firm of Davies, Bibbins, Menders Architects, Inc. before
establishing Claude Emanuel Menders, Architects Inc. in Boston in 1979.
Claude will be greatly missed by his family, friends, and
associates. Donations may be made in his name to Temple Beth David in Westwood,
Massachusetts, and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Division of Thoracic
Oncology in Boston, Massachusetts.
Architecture
aims at eternity; and therefore is the only thing capable of modes and fashions
in its principles.
Sir
Christopher Wren 1632-1723
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