James Ingo Freed

James Ingo Freed ( born June 23, 1930 in Essen, † 15 December 2005 in Manhattan, New York City ) was an American architect of German descent.

Life

James Ingo Freed was born in 1930 into a Jewish family in Essen. His father was an engineer. Freed was sent by his parents in 1940 to relatives in Chicago to escape the terror of the Nazis in the Third Reich. He then studied at the beginning of the 1950s in Chicago Architecture Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After graduating in 1953 he worked with Mies van der Rohe with the New York Seagram Building and then moved to New York. In 1956 he became a partner of Pritzker Prize winners IM Pei in the architectural firm " Pei Cobb Freed & Partners ."

In 1975, Freed Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology ( IIT) from 1975 to 1978 as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. Later he taught at the Cooper Union, Cornell University, the Rhode Iceland School of Design, Columbia University and Yale University.

James Ingo Freed was a member of the " Chicago Seven" and is considered one of the most influential architects of the postwar American architecture.

Freed was with the painter and video artist Hermine Freed (1940-1998) married. He died at the age of 75 years from the effects of Parkinson 's disease.

Work

In the 1980s he achieved a breakthrough by designing a glass conference center in Manhattan. He also designed the Municipal Library of San Francisco and a memorial to the U.S. Air Force in Arlington ( Virginia). International reputation and received Freed by the design of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, which was opened in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. With towers, reminiscent of the Auschwitz extermination camp, Freed chose an unusual design which was highly praised by critics.