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Ms. Editor:
I read Patricia Green’s article about Patrick Stanigar this Sunday Gleaner When I learned he had passed. I completely agree that Patrick is a “giant among architects”. I first met him at McMorris Sibley Robinson (MSR), where I was leading a small engineering department. He is an intelligent and charming architect. I remember when Patrick Williams and Evan Williams left MSR and launched Design Collaborative.
I believe they both studied at Pratt Institute in New York. Architect Harry Massop also studied at Pratt and was at MSR at the time, as did architects Verma Panton, Stan Kennedy, Hugh Robotham, MSR principals, etc. I also left MSR and worked for Douglas Pearce Engineers for a year (1974) working on the construction of Berth 11, the first port in Jamaica for containerized cargo transshipment.
In 1975, I joined the National Development Agency as a project manager, and the construction design of the Cultural Training Center (CTC) was my first major task. I met Patrick on the CTC project and got to know him better. He’s an interesting character with a unique speech, gait and mannerisms, and he’s one hundred percent an architect. I remember him going into a neighborhood downtown and searching, finding and hiring a surviving craftsman who could make the patterned cement tiles he used in the CTC. He was a man of many accomplishments who had a positive impact on many people, including myself.
Earl Richards
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