Architect E. Fay Jones dies

Architect E. Fay Jones, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright whose glass-and-wood Thorncrown Chapel was honored in the United States as the nation's top design of the 1980s, has died.

Here is an excerpt from his AIA gold medal acceptance speech:

In the future - in a changing world - whatever the sources of our creativity - whatever stirs our imagination - whatever architectural language we choose to speak - as architects, we have the potential to build well-composed places, large and small, that will not only accommodate our functional needs, but will stand as models which represent the best of our ideas. We have the power - and the responsibility - to shape new forms in the landscape - physical and spatial forms that will illuminate - and nourish - and poetically express - our human qualities at their spiritual best. As architects, as transformers of our living environment, we must eventuate that potential.

E. Fay Jones