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Experimental architect Raimund Abraham, 76, dies in car accident

By Claire Noland
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Raimund Abraham, an iconoclastic architect from Austria who had been teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture since 2003, died early Thursday in a car accident in downtown Los Angeles, the school said. He was 76.

Abraham died only hours after giving a lecture at SCI-Arc.

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Christopher Hawthorne, The Times’ architecture critic, has more here. And a full obituary will follow at www.latimes.com/obits.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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