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James Ingo Freed, a principal of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and architect of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and other notable institutional and commercial works in the nation's capital and elsewhere, died last month following a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 75.
Known not for a singular style but for a methodology that took each commission as an individual endeavor rather than as an opportunity to mark a site with an identifiable signature, Freed's portfolio is defined by a predilection for airy volumes, often sweeping in scale and intricate in detail. For the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (1986, above right) on Manhattan's West Side, for example, he recast the shed typology of this industrial district as a series of interconnected, glass-enclosed boxes, their massive forms echoing the neighboring buildings' monumentality but not their monolithic aspect; while its below-grade exhibition spaces are artificially...