His firm designed many of San Diego's office towers, hotels and hospitals, but its crowning achievement was the $28 million, all-concrete San Diego Stadium in Mission Valley, later renamed San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium, Qualcomm Stadium and SDCCU (San Diego Credit Union) Stadium.
Between the two of them, Jack Carpenter and Kotaro Nakamura have close to 100 years of experience as San Diego architects. They're being honored this month for lifetime achievement.