Roger Margerum

Roger Margerum (1931 - 21 June 2016) was a "pioneering" African-American architect.

Margerum went to DePaul University on a track scholarship, and then studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

As a student he made a speculative approach to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who hired him.

In 2000, after leaving full-time practice, his wife Fran, asked him to design a house for them. Completed in 2006, Margerum said, "the only way to satisfy myself was to design something architecturally significant. I believe I’ve done that. To my knowledge, no one before has used the 45-degree polygon as a rigid module."

Margerum died aged 85 on 21 June 2016, near Detroit, due to complications from a stroke.