Martin Hoffmeister, December 2018

Martin Hoffmeister, an American architect, has died, but we don’t have a specific date. Your scribe, in spite of much searching, has not found much about his life. Here is what we have from prabook.com:

Martin was born on August 27, 1942 in Prague, Czechoslovakia to Vaclav Rohlik and Milena (Hoffmeister) Klikova. He came to the United States in 1966. After getting his Yale BA in 1969, he earned a Master of Architecture from Yale in 1972. He did postgraduate work at the University of Chicago in 1984.

Martin was Chief designer for Taisei Corporation, Tokyo, 1973-1975. He was vice president at Perkins & Will, Chicago, 1975-1984. He was vice president of Perez Architects, Denver, 1984-1986. After that he was vice president and director at Brown Burton & Partners, Inc., in Albuquerque, NM. He was also the New Mexico State University Architect. Martin Hoffmeister has been listed as a notable architect by Marquis Who’s Who. His hobbies were history and bicycling.

Gregory Montes is writing a separate remembrance, which will be published soon.