Henry N. Cobb (1926–2020) was an American architect and a founding partner, with I. M. Pei and Eason H. Leonard, of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in New York. Born in Boston, he studied at Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He chaired Harvard's Department of Architecture from 1980 to 1985 and in 2013 received the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's Lynn S. Beedle Award.
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Place Ville Marie in Montreal (1962) is a 47-storey cruciform office tower above a plaza and shopping concourse. In Boston he designed the Harbor Towers (1971), apartments built to revive the city's run-down waterfront, and the John Hancock Tower (1976), whose skin of the largest possible panes of slightly blue reflective glass, without spandrel panels and with minimal mullions, lets it fade against the sky; it has been the tallest building in New England ever since. Fountain Place in Dallas (1986) is a 60-storey tower cut as a large, many-faceted prism. Henry N. Cobb's buildings are studied for the tall building as pure geometry.
