Remembering the great architects and designers we lost in 2021

As part of our ongoing 2021 review, Dezeen remembers the architects and designers who passed away this year, including designer Virgil Abloh and architects Helmut Jahn and Art Gensler.
Other legends who died in 2021 include architects Owen Luder and Paulo Mendes da Rocha and fashion designer Alber Elbaz.
Here we remember 12 of the greats we lost in 2021.
Virgil Abloh
Having originally trained as an architect, American-Ghanaian designer Virgil Abloh transformed the fashion industry by merging str