Victor Curt Mahler ’54

Victor Curt Mahler ’54 passed away on September 7, 2011, in New York City. Victor came to Dartmouth from Scarsdale, New York, having attended Deerfield Academy. At Dartmouth he majored in architecture and was a brother of Gamma Delta Chi. He was a member of the Handel Society, Dartmouth Christian Union, Germania, the Mountaineering Club and the Dartmouth Outing Club. He was in the Navy for two years, serving on the USS Ingraham in the Atlantic Fleet. Victor received a master of architecture degree in 1960 from the Harvard School of Design and then joined the Architects Collaborative in Cambridge, Massachusetts (a firm headed by Walter Gropius). While with that firm he worked on many projects, including designing the Hoffman Laboratory at Harvard. In 1965 he went to work with I.M. Pei and Partners in New York City, working on such projects as the Washington, D.C., post office, a 60-story stainless-steel office building for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Toronto and Collins Place in Melbourne, Australia. In 1977 he formed his own firm, Mahler Architectural Consultants, in New York City, specializing in skin and exterior cladding on tall building projects. He worked on buildings throughout the world. In 1994 Victor was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He had served on the board of advisors to the Harvard Graduate of Design. He is survived by his wife, Mimi.

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