James Lee Nagle (August 5, 1937January 19, 2021)<ref>Oral History of James Lee Nagle, interviewed by Annemarie van Roessel, compiled under the auspices of the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, the Ernest R. Graham Study Center for Architectural Drawings, Department of Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago. 2000, p. 1.</ref> was an American architect practicing in Chicago. He was noted for being part of the Chicago Seven that supported a diversity in architectural styles beyond internationalism. Early life and career Nagle was born in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1937. His family owned a lumber business, where he worked before going to university. He entered the "pre-architecture" program at Stanford University in 1955, obtaining a bachelor's degree from that institution in 1959. In 1960, he was an ensign in the United States Navy stationed at the Boston Naval Shipyard. After serving in the Navy, he proceeded to earn a Bachelor of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962, and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University two years later. Following his graduation from Harvard, Nagle travelled to the Netherlands as a Fulbright Scholar to study architecture and urbanism. On his return to the United States in 1965, Nagle joined the office of Stanley Tigerman, leaving in 1966 to open a firm with Larry Booth, a fellow architect at Tigerman's office. Nagle left his partnership with Booth in 1981 to establish Nagle Hartray and Associates with Jack Hartray. The firm is known today as Nagle Hartray Architecture. Career Nagle taught design at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He also served as chair of the Board of Overseers for the latter's College of Architecture. He taught, exhibited, and lectured extensively at numerous other schools of architecture. Additionally, he served as Chairman of the AIA National Committee on Design, President of the Chicago Architecture Foundation, President of the Graham Foundation Board, and Design Juror on many State and National Awards Programs. He was a member of the Archeworks Board of Directors, and the Design Matters Advisory Committee. The Chicago Seven In the late 1970s, Nagle became a member of the Chicago Seven, a group led by Tigerman. The movement emerged in opposition to the doctrinal application of modernism, as represented particularly in Chicago by the followers of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Nagle later stressed that he was not critical of Mies' style. Rather,