death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date spouse significant_buildings image article_title significant_projects birth_name alma_mater
15 december 2005 manhattan , new york essen , germany james i. freed 23 june 1930 hermine freed jacob public library , united states air force memorial k. javits convention center , san francisco main ronald reagan building - washington , dc.jpg james ingo freed
 ronald states holocaust memorial museum reagan building and international trade center , united james ingo freed illinois institute of technology
james ingo freed

james ingo freed -lrb- june 23 , 1930 -- december 15 , 2005 -rrb- was an american architect born in essen , germany during the weimar republic .
after coming to the united states at age nine with his 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 .
