Brendan L. Rogers, of Weymouth and Boston, MA, age 45, passed away unexpectedly on February 25, 2026. Brendan was born in Dorchester, MA on November 13, 1980, the third of Kenneth and Kathleen (Noble) Rogers’ four children.

Brendan began a lifelong passion for art and music as a teenager, preparing for college at Boston College High School, class of 1999, and then receiving a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C. in 2004. His favorite college course provided the opportunity to travel to Nepal to build a spiritual meditation place of respite in the Himalayan mountains. He went on to earn a Master of Architecture in 2008 at CUA, receiving the Goettelmann Best of Thesis Travel Fellowship to design and build a spiritual workshop and architectural marvel on the outskirts of County Mayo, Ireland, with fellow students and teachers that were not only colleagues but also beloved friends. Brendan honed his love of teaching at CUA, as an Instructor in Design, which set him on a path as a lifelong teacher and mentor. He contributed to multiple publications in the field.

Through his work in Boston as an Associate Architect at Sasaki, for over 15 years, Brendan spent his life creating purpose through projects that ranged in scale from master planning to stand alone pavilions in the landscape. His unique approach to design centered on the ethos that iterative making allowed for discovery and integration of place, culture, space and community. Brendan was the go-to expert “model builder” at Sasaki, using this medium to test and communicate design ideas. His intricate, precise and captivating models were used for many of the competitive bids for Sasaki, such as the memorial for the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, FL and the the University of Auckland Recreation and Wellness Centre in New Zealand. These bids led to finished projects all over the world, including the Academic Commons and Carelon Bell at the Salisbury University, Maryland (thereafter ranked a top U.S. university library); the Brown University Penner Field House, Providence, RI; Anant National University in Ahmedabad, India; The Lawrenceville School Tsai Commons and Field House, Lawrenceville, NJ; The Universidad de Lima Recreation, Wellness and Student Life Center, Lima, Peru; and Ogawa Coffee, in Ogawa, Japan, among so many others. Brendan’s world travels were both formative and inspiring, and he shared these learnings freely.

Brendan also felt called to apply his skills in volunteer capacities. After Hurricane Matthew devastated Haiti in 2016, Brendan and a small collaborative architecture team traveled to Haiti multiple times between 2016 and 2018. There they designed and built a community center, the Hinche Center of Hope, with the intent to bring the uprooted community together in healing.

For Brendan, there was little difference between work in the studio office and “work” at home. Art, music, photography, design and building were his passions. During his time in his Boston apartment, he loved to record music, jam on the guitar with his brother Kenneth, make art (digital, drawings, paintings and jewelry), read, and write prolifically. He usually did this with (good!) espresso and a cigarette in his mouth, although he always swore he had quit. Brendan was a seeker of awe and wonder. He found the cosmos fascinating and, with a caravan of fellow eclipse chasing friends, he caught many astronomical events, including in Missouri, Canada and the total solar eclipse in 2024.

Brendan loved children, most certainly his three nieces and his friend Sarah’s daughter MJ, who held a special place in his heart. He taught them guitar, basketball and waxed poetic about the wonder of the universe, and how to engage creativity and harness their resilient, intelligent and competitive natures. At his most relaxed, he was playful, silly, and just plain fun. He did backflips, scaled mountains, and walked through canyons and deserts with no shoes on. He probably still has unpaid parking tickets. The mundane was just that; trivial.

His most revered moments were spent with close friends and family, in conversations debating existential questions about the nature of space, time, the universe, and God. Brendan thought deeply and sought beauty everywhere, in nature, in art and architecture, in his relationships. For Brendan, everything - and everyone - was connected. In Brendan’s words, “All of it. Everything.”

He is survived by his loving parents, Ken and Kathy Rogers of Weymouth, MA, sister Meighan Rogers Driscoll and nieces Madeleine, Amelia and Nora and their father Tim Driscoll of Canton, MA; brother Kenneth Rogers and his wife Jodi Coochise of Boston, MA, and sister Emily Rogers of Bristol, NH, as well as his maternal grandmother Josephine Noble, and many aunts, uncles, cousins and dear friends. He will be incredibly missed; the world was better - both more beautiful and more vast - for him being in it.

A wake will be held Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00PM to 7:00PM at Keohane Funeral Home, 809 Main Street, Weymouth. Funeral services will be held Monday, March 9, at 10:30am at St. Agatha’s Church, 432 Adams Street, Milton. A reception will follow at The Tirrell Room, 254 Quarry St. Quincy, and is open to all. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the U.S. National Park Service or the National Alliance on Mental Illness.