SICKLER, Donald Lee

Donald Lee Sickler of Baltimore, MD passed away on Sunday, January 17, 2021 after several months of declining health. He was 91.

Born April 20, 1929 in Penns Grove, NJ, he entered the US Navy after high school and while on leave in New York visited an exhibit on the work of the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Mies) that determined the course of his life’s work. He studied architecture under Mies at the Illinois Institute of Technology and later worked for Mies for a number of years before founding his own firm in Baltimore in

1963. He was the project architect for Baltimore’s One Charles Center as well as the architect for the Johns Hopkins University Glass Pavilion, the Winthrop House Condominium as well as multi-family housing projects in Florida, Tennessee, Colorado and Montreal, Quebec. He lived the last years of his life in a home on Keswick Road that he filled with drawings and watercolors from his own hand.

He is survived by his children Anna Sickler Schwartz

and Michael Sickler of Baltimore, MD, Catherine Garagozlo of Gaithersburg, MD and Fred Sickler of Chicago, IL and grandchildren Raymond III and William Schwartz, Max, Jack and Nick Sickler, and Mina and David Garagozlo as well as many nieces and nephews. His wife, Lolita (Ghilarducci) Sickler and brothers, Edwin and Wilbur, predeceased him.

Due to the COVID pandemic a memorial service has

been postponed until later in the year.