George Dudley, 90; 1st Dean of UCLA’s Architecture School

George A. Dudley, 90, founding dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA and a noted architect who coordinated the designing and construction of several State University of New York campuses, died of pneumonia Sunday at his home in Rensselaerville, N.Y.

A Pittsburgh native who graduated from Yale University in 1936, Dudley established the first master of fine arts program in urban planning at Yale in 1941.

He wrote “A Workshop for Peace: Designing the United Nations Headquarters,” a 1994 book on the designing of the United Nations Building, for which he was involved from 1945 to 1950 as secretary of the international committee of architects assembled for the project.

As president of IBEC Housing Corp. from 1948 to 1960, Dudley guided construction of more than 10,000 low-cost housing units in Puerto Rico, Peru, Venezuela, Iran and India. In the 1970s and ‘80s, he planned or advised such Middle East developments as the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.

Dudley was dean of architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1962 to 1965 and was founding dean of UCLA’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning from 1965 to 1968.