Hugh Macintosh, a civil engineer who had lived and worked in Iran, died Monday of lymphoma at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Lutherville resident was 68.
Mr. Macintosh was born in Nantwich, England, and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland.
After earning his degree in civil engineering from the University of Edinburgh, he spent time traveling through Europe.
"He rode the Borough, the same type of motorcycle that Lawrence of Arabia rode," said a daughter, Andrea Macintosh Whiteway of Potomac.
Mr. Macintosh worked for an engineering firm in Manchester, England, until joining International Management and Engineering Group, a company that built pipelines in Iran.
Mr. Macintosh moved to Iran, where he worked on the construction of the Post and Telegraph Building and the Ministry of Agriculture in Tehran.
After the 1979 Iranian revolution and the overthrow of the shah of Iran, Mr. Macintosh moved to the United States and settled in Lutherville.
He worked for Baltimore Contractors, Mullan Construction Co., Omni Construction Co. and Sigal Construction Co. At his death, he had been employed for 11 years by the Bovis Construction Co.
Major construction projects he had been associated with included the Loews Hotel in Annapolis, dormitories at Towson University and the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington.
Most recently, he had worked on building the National Museum of the American Indian and the renovation of the National Portrait Gallery, both in Washington.
Mr. Macintosh was an avid runner, bicycler, skier and outdoorsman. He enjoyed riding motorcycles and owned a Laverda, a classic Italian motorcycle.
During the summers of 2005 and 2006, he traveled to the Alps, where he rode in the Etape du Tour, which is the amateur stage of the fabled Tour de France.
"It's a 128-mile ride with some 5,000 riders, and he was one of the 3,000 who finished," Ms. Whiteway said.
Mr. Macintosh had served on the board and had been president of the York Manor Improvement Association.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Ruck Towson Funeral Home, 1050 York Road.
Also surviving are his wife of 44 years, the former Seda Ghazikhanian; another daughter, Amanda M. Zarle of Wellesley, Mass.; a brother, Duncan Macintosh of Glasgow, Scotland; two sisters, Katherine Macintosh of Winchester, England, and Fiona Macintosh of West Kilbride, Scotland; and four grandchildren.