Mr. Chermayeff led the architecture department from 1962 until his retirement in 1970. He held the same position at Harvard University 1953-62 and formerly taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, Brooklyn College, the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A native of the Caucasus, Mr. Chermayeff was educated in England, where he did most of his early work. Among his most noteworthy architectural projects are the seaside Bexhill Pavilion in England, which was restored last year, the Clarence Mayhew House in Oakland, California, and the Horn House in Marin County, California. He was the coauthor of "Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architecture of Humanism" 1963 and of "Shape of Community: Realization of Human Potential" 1971 .
Mr. Chermayeff was a cofounder of the American Society of Planners and Architects and was president of the Chicago Institute of Design.
He was a resident of Wellfleet for the last 55 years. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Mailand May Chermayeff; two sons, Peter, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Ivan, of New York City; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.