Frederic Schwartz
Frederic Schwartz
Global Associate
Architect & Urban Designer
Frederic Schwartz is an activist and a humanist whose career has been dedicated to some of America's most visible public projects ... As a downtown Manhattan resident - after witnessing the tragedies of September 11th firsthand — Schwartz began 'drawing and drawing again ... in a healing process, re-envisioning the city to help mend its wounds.' He founded the THINK team, a finalist for replanning the World Trade Center. (First Lady Laura Bush at the White House for the National Design Award in Architecture)
Frederic Schwartz's ideas provided the framework for the New York Times Magazine "Think Big" Planning Study for the World Trade Center and led to his founding of THINK - an international team of architects selected as the "runner-up" to "re-imagine Ground Zero" by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) who designed the internationally popular World Cultural Center. His independent design and planning for Lower Manhattan "opened the door" reducing development pressure on the World Trade Center facilitating an open site for the 9/11 memorial and a way to repair the city's skyline. The New York Times repeatedly published his ideas and in September 2002 ran a profile: "The Man Who Dared the City to THINK Again."
Frederic Schwartz has won a number of major national and international design competitions including the New Jersey State 9/11 Memorial (2004), the Westchester 9/11 Memorial (2004), the recently completed $150 million, 250,000 sf, Staten Island Ferry Terminal at the tip of Manhattan (2005) serving 70,000 commuters daily, the $100 million, 850,000 sf, Southwest Regional Capitol of France in Toulouse, the 13-acre Santa Fe Railyard Park (2004), and recently the New York City Housing and Development (2004) competition for 500,000 sf of affordable and market rate housing in Harlem.
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| - Harvard Graduate School of Design, - Master of Architecture, 1978 University of California at Berkeley, - A. B. Architecture 1973. |