Max Bond Jr. was an American architect and educator. Bond earned both his bachelor's degree and master's degree from Harvard University. Bond began his architectural career in France, later moved and worked in Ghana, then returned to the United States to work in New York. Bond served as the head of the Architects' Renewal Committee in Harlem from 1967-68. Bond and Donald P. Ryder founded the architectural firm, Bond Ryder & Associates. This firm designed the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Bond died in 2009 at the age of 73.