(b Philadelphia, PA, 7 Dec 1932). American architect. He studied at Yale University, New Haven, CT, and received his architectural training at the Graduate School of Design (1946–50), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. He taught design at the University of Pennsylvania (1951–65), Philadelphia, and he was appointed Dean of the School of Architecture, Princeton University, in 1965. In 1954 he was co-founder of the firm Geddes Brecher Qualls Cunningham, with offices in Princeton, NJ, and Philadelphia. His work has included a broad range of designs from small houses and playgrounds, to large public and institution buildings. Among the latter are the Pender Laboratory (1958), Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania; Temple Beth Sholom (1964), Manchester, CT; Theater and Fine Arts Complex (1966–8), Beaver College, Glenside, PA; Graduate Research Center (1967), University of Pennsylvania; Coatesville public housing (1973), Coatesville, PA; Humanities and Social Sciences Building (1975), University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale; Liberty State Park (1979), Jersey City, NJ; South Wing, J. B. Speed Art Museum (1983), Louisville, KY. His curved Philadelphia Police Headquarters (1962) was an early example of the use of dramatic visual form to create a sense of identity. Unlike many architects of the 1960s, Geddes believed it was the architect’s task to embody ethical and aesthetic values in building at both the individual and social levels.