Freed, James Ingo

Freed, James Ingo
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      German-born American architect (b. June 23, 1930, Essen, Ger.—d. Dec. 15, 2005, New York, N.Y.), designed numerous Modernist buildings, most notably the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (1993) and the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (1998), a mixed-use complex in Washington, D.C. During the early 1950s Freed studied under architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Chicago before joining (1956) the architectural firm of I.M. Pei and Henry N. Cobb in New York City. Freed was the recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1995 and in 1998 was honoured with the Presidential Citation for Lifetime Achievement, awarded by the American Institute of Architects.

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