Max Abramovitz (May 23, 1908–September 12, 2004) was a prominent architect of the New York City firm Harrison, Abramovitz, & Abbe. Successful works include the UNO Building, New York; the Corning Glass Center, New York; the U.S. Steel Tower (aka USX Tower), Pittsburgh U.S.A. and the Tour GAN, La Defense (Courbevoie), France.

Abramovitz graduated in 1929 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for which he later designed three buildings: the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts which was completed in 1969; the university's Hillel Foundation building; and its Assembly Hall ($8.5M), at its time the world's largest edge-supported dome, 400 feet in diameter, and rising 128 feet above the floor. Other campus designs by Abramowitz include the Hilles Library, a new home for the Radcliffe College Library at Harvard, and Jerome L. Greene Hall, the main building of Columbia Law School.

Abramovitz received and M.S. from Columbia University in 1931. He was a partner of Wallace Harrison from 1941-1976.

In 1961, the destruction by fire of the synagogue of congregation of Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo led to a design for a new building by Abramowitz, completed in 1967.

He was the designer of Avery Fisher Hall (originally the Philharmonic Center) at Lincoln Center (opened 1962.)

Max Abramovitz died in September 2004 in Pound Ridge, New York, at the age of 96.

External links

• Obituary from New York Times, 15 Sep 2004
• Information on Harrison, Abramovitz, & Abbe - from Emporis.com
• Information on Harrison & Abramovitz (the firm's earlier incarnation) - from Emporis.com
• Max Abramovitz Architectural Records and Papers Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York City
• Architect Max Abramowitz, Designer of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Dies (Architectural Record, September 17, 2004)