“Every act of preservation is inescapably an act of renewal by the light of a later time, a set of decisions both about what we think something was and about what we want it to be and to say about ourselves today,” Byard wrote in his book “The Architecture of Additions: Design and Regulation” (W.W. Norton, 1998).

The obituary of this architect, who lived in Prospect Heights, is in today’s New York Times.