Peter Pran NBBJ:realizations

by Thom Mayne (Introduction), Daniel Libeskind (Introduction), Odile Decq (Introduction)

Peter Pran is often acclaimed as one of the world's most innovative and creative architects. This Norwegian-American has won fifteen national and international design competitions, two AIA design honour awards, including the 2004 design honour award for the Telenor Headquarters, twelve New York design awards and two American design awards. He has designed buildings in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America. Currently design principal for NBBJ, one of the world's largest international firms, his portfolio of work includes work with Mies van der Rohe on the new national gallery in Berlin, the Chicago Federal Centre and the Toronto Dominion Centre. Pran has also been senior project designer with SOM on several major projects. This new book looks closely at Pran's oeuvre, which includes a selection of his work from 1989 to 2005.

Hardcover

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Thom Mayne is an American architect. He is based in Los Angeles. In 1972, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he is a trustee and the coordinator of the Design of Cities postgraduate program. Since then he has held teaching positions at SCI-Arc, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is principal of Morphosis Architects, an architectural firm based in Culver City, California and New York City, New York. Mayne received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2005.