James L. Nagle

James Lee Nagle (August 5, 1937 – January 19, 2021)[1] was an American architect practicing in Chicago.

[2] Following his graduation from Harvard, Nagle travelled to the Netherlands as a Fulbright Scholar to study architecture and urbanism.

Additionally, he served as Chairman of the AIA National Committee on Design, President of the Chicago Architecture Foundation, President of the Graham Foundation Board, and Design Juror on many State and National Awards Programs.

The movement emerged in opposition to the doctrinal application of modernism, as represented particularly in Chicago by the followers of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

[2] He spearheaded the effort to protect Glessner House,[7] the last surviving building designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in Chicago, spending seven years to refurbish it.

As part of the panel discussion, Nagle commented on the state of affairs that prompted the intervention of the Chicago Seven: "It wasn't Mies that got boring.

They met while studying at Stanford,[2] and resided for over three decades in a brick house in Lincoln Park that he designed in 1979.