Roger Montgomery

Roger Montgomery (1925–2003) was an American architect, and Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Roger Montgomery was born in New York City to parents Graham Livingston Montgomery and Anne Cook and lived in Greenwich Village until 1930, when he moved to Port Washington, Long Island. In 1945 he was accepted into the army, where he served in an intelligence unit in occupied Germany as a radio operator.

He attended a John Dewey-influenced grade school in Port Washington. In high school he was voted ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ and ‘The Great Orator’. He was excused from military service in 1941 because of a punctured eardrum and subsequently enrolled in Oberlin College, but was dismissed from the college in 1945. Montgomery began his architectural work in 1948 as an apprentice in Springfield, Ohio and was soon successful, in part because of a shortage of architects and large post-war boom in construction. From 1955 to 1956 he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received a Masters of Architecture degree under professors Josep Lluís Sert and Sigfried Giedion, while studying with classmates Fumihiko Maki and Ben Weese.

Mongomery married Oberlin College graduate Mary Hoyt. They had four sons, Richard, Thomas, John and Peter.

He died of cancer on October 25, 2003.

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