James Ingo Freed

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

Life

James Ingo Freed was born in 1930 to a Jewish family in Essen. His father was an engineer. Freed was sent to relatives in Chicago by his parents in 1940 to escape the terror of the National Socialists in the Third Reich . He then studied architecture in Chicago with Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the early 1950s . After completing his studies in 1953, he worked with Mies van der Rohe on the New York Seagram Building and then moved to New York. In 1956 he became a partner of Pritzker Prize winner IM Pei in the architecture office "Pei Cobb Freed & Partners".

In 1975 Freed became professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), from 1975 to 1978 as dean of the architecture faculty. He later taught at Cooper Union , Cornell University , the Rhode Island 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 American post-war architecture. In 1994 he was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design . In the same year he was also accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Freed was married to the painter and video artist Hermine Freed (1940–1998). He died at the age of 75 of complications from Parkinson's disease .

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In the 1980s he achieved his breakthrough with the design of a glass conference center in Manhattan . He also designed the San Francisco City Library and a memorial for the US Air Force in Arlington, Virginia . Freed gained worldwide fame for the design of the US 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 that was highly praised by critics.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "F" / Freed, James Ingo NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 22, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  2. ↑ Members: James Ingo Freed. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ David W. Dunlap: The New York Times James Ingo Freed, 75, Dies; Designed Holocaust Museum 2005 obituary James Ingo Freed
personal data
SURNAME Freed, James Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Essen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2005
Place of death Manhattan , New York City