David Slovic
David Slovic earned an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a master’s in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. There he won the Paul Cret Gold Medal for Design in 1966, and following graduation, took a job with Louis Kahn. He was among the leading architects of the postmodernist period, known for his use of decoration and pattern. He also held the Henry Luce professorship at Tulane University. In 1993, Slovic and his wife, Ligia, designed the Latimer House in Philadelphia for their family, modeled after courtyard houses of Latin America and Europe, and filled it with their extensive art collection. Slovic also practiced photography and fine arts and had exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Venice Biennale, Yale University, and the Delaware Museum of Contemporary Art. He died in 2018.