The monuments that an architect leaves are the buildings he designed, and Richard Barancick’s buildings dot the skyline and pepper the country. rickkogan has more.
Architect Richard Barancik surveys the city on March 10, 1971, from the 33rd floor of a high-rise he developed at 100 E. Bellevue Place.
Her father died in Northwestern Memorial Hospital on July 14. Many of his obituaries focused on the fact that for three months at the end of World War II, Richard Barancik was a member of what came to be famously known as “the Monuments Men,” a group that helped recover art looted by the Nazis.Jill told me, “He would be shocked by all the attention and as much as it would make him uncomfortable I think we would have understood why it was important.
“He was never pretentious about his work,” Jill said. “He had opinions about everything and prided himself on being a contrarian but he never waxed poetic about the meaning of art or architecture. He just loved it but didn’t feel the need to pontificate about it.” After his short time in that group, Barancik studied architecture at the University of Cambridge in England and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Back in the States, he entered the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in architecture.
He would continue to design and develop properties here and across the nation. Like many WWII vets, he never boasted about his experiences but did love telling his family about his many adventures during and after the war. “The pandemic meant we became a bubble so we were together a great deal of the time, ate most of our meals together and I became his confidant, chef, secretary and bodyguard. He was still a big walker, almost every day. He kept up the calisthenics that he had been doing since the Army.
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