We are very sorry to hear that the architect, artist, and curator Francois Perrin died this morning.

Perrin was born in Paris, worked in Los Angeles at his studio Air Architecture, and will be greatly missed.

From top: Francois Perrin; Francois Perrin, Air Houses: Design for a New Climate, at the Garfield Park Conservatory, a project for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, photograph by Steve Hall, courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial; Perrin’s design for a guesthouse in Brentwood, Los Angeles; the PAS House, designed by Perrin and skater Gil Lebon Delapointe for Pierre Andre Senizergues.