Architect Charles A. Platt, founding partner of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects LLP died on August 18, 2020. He served as a member of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission beginning in the 1970s, serving as Vice-Chair of the Commission prior to concluding his service in 1984. For many years Platt served as a director of the Municipal Arts Society, the New 42 Inc., the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, and the Augustus Saint- Gaudens Memorial. As an architect, Platt strove to create modern designs that understood and honored both history and context. See and listen to Platt’s oral history with the Archive Project at: www.nypap. org/oral-history/charles- a-platt/