George Matsumoto

Matsumoto died on June 28, 2016 at age 93. He was proceeded in death by his wife of 53 years, Kimi Nao (1923–2005). Together they had five children, Mari, Kiyo, Kei, Kenneth and Miye Matsumoto.

Since 2016, a nonprofit organization named North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) has an annual Matsumoto Prize, in honor of George Matsumoto.

After leaving the School of Design in 1961, Matsumoto returned to California to teach at the University of California, Berkeley and later opened a successful practice that did work in commercial, educational and recreational work, as well as campus and community planning. He was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1973.

Completing his graduate studies in 1945, Matsumoto joined the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in Chicago and in 1946, joined the firm of Saarinen and Swanson. While with Saarinen and Swanson, he, along with Terry Waugh and David Greer, won the "Better Chicago Contest" with a cash prize of $10,000. Their winning entry was a comprehensive regional plan for the Chicago metropolitan area.

George Matsumoto (July 16, 1922 – June 28, 2016) was a Japanese-American architect and educator who is known for his Modernist designs.

George Matsumoto was born in 1922 in San Francisco, California. He grew up in San Francisco's Nihonmachi Japantown, attended Lowell High School, and took Japanese classes at Kinmon Gakuen. Matsumoto attended the University of California at Berkeley in architecture, but due to his internment at Poston during World War II (along with other Japanese Americans), he completed his undergraduate education at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned his graduate degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, studying under Eliel Saarinen.