James Ingo Freed
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James Ingo Freed June 23, 1930 Essen, Germany |
| Died | December 15, 2005 (aged 75) Manhattan, New York |
| Alma mater | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse(s) | Hermine Freed |
| Buildings | Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, San Francisco Main Public Library, United States Air Force Memorial, Capella Tower |
| Projects | Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
James Ingo Freed (June 23, 1930 – December 15, 2005) was an American architect born in Essen, Germany during the Weimar Republic. After coming to the United States at age nine with his sister Betty, followed later by their parents, he studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a degree in architecture.
In the late 1970s, he was a member of the Chicago Seven and dean for three years of the School of Architecture at his alma mater. He worked for most of his career based in New York, and went beyond the Internationalist and modernist styles. In partnership with I.M. Pei, in their firm known as Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, he worked on major United States public buildings and museums.
James Ingo Freed was born in 1930 in Essen, Germany to a German-Jewish family. The family left Germany in 1939, when Freed was nine years old, to escape the regime of Nazi Germany. They immigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago.
In 1953, Freed received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Freed first worked in Chicago and New York, including with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a prominent modernist architect.
In 1956, he began working with I.M. Pei in New York at the firm eventually known as Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
In the late 1970s, Freed was a member of the Chicago Seven, a group which emerged in opposition to the doctrinal application of modernism, as represented particularly in Chicago by the followers of Mies van der Rohe.
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