Photos: Jon Jerde | 1940 - 2015

The Jon Jerde-designed Horton Plaza in San Diego, shown in 1985, with its post-modernist color scheme and split-level walkways, has been likened to an Escher drawing. The shopping center and entertainment complex is the centerpiece of downtown San Diego.  (Anthony Pidgeon / Getty Images/Lonely Planet Image)

Horton Plaza, designed by Jon Jerde, helped resuscitate San Diego’s deteriorating downtown.  (John Elk / Getty Images / Lonely Planet Image)

Tourists walk through the Jon Jerde-designed Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Jon Jerde designed the Seventh Market Place mall in downtown Los Angeles.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Jon Jerde designed Fashion Island, an upscale shopping center in Newport Beach.  (John Connell / Getty Images)

The interior of the Westside Pavilion in West Los Angeles was designed to resemble a Paris arcade.  (Randy Leffingwell / Los Angeles Times)

Architect Jon Jerde is shown in 1988 in his Los Angeles office on Sunset Boulevard.  (Jose Galvez / Los Angeles Times)

Jon Jerde designed the Morongo Casino Resort in Cabazon in Riverside County.  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

The Freemont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas was designed by Jon Jerde.  (Gavin Hellier / Getty Images)

Jon Jerde designed the Wynn Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Jon Jerde designed the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

The Jon Jerde-designed Canal City Hakata, the biggest shopping mall in Fukuoka, Japan, is built around an artificial canal running off the Naka River.  (Rio Helmi / LightRocket via Getty Images)