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Frederic David Schwartz (April 1, 1951 – April 28, 2014) was an American architect, author, and city planner whose work includes "Empty Sky," the New Jersey 9-11 Memorial, which was dedicated in Liberty State Park on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. A recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture, Schwartz -- "for his dedication to using architecture to heal New York"—is included in the New York Hall of Fame, an organization created to "honor remarkable New Yorkers who have contributed to the betterment of the city" and who serve as "role models for children."〔Nash, Denise,(Plainview/Old Beth Page Herald ), retrieved February 20, 2011.〕 He was honored by First Lady Laura Bush at the 2003 White House National Design Awards ceremony. ==Biography== Schwartz was born in New York.〔(New York Times Magazine article ), retrieved February 5, 2011.〕 He once designed a community center about ten blocks away from the site in Jamaica, Queens, where he was born.〔 He grew up in Plainview, where he watched the construction of new houses, one after the other, in what had been potato fields on the eastern edge of Nassau County—and it was there that he began to build his "first houses," using discarded refrigerator boxes.〔 A graduate of Berkeley (A.B., Architecture, 1973) and Harvard (Master of Architecture, 1978),〔〔(EuropeanManagementInstitute.org ), retrieved February 22, 2011.〕 he taught architectural design at Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia and Princeton,〔 and lectured extensively in America, Europe, China and India.〔 As an undergraduate student he spent his junior year abroad studying at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England in 1971-1972. He is the author of three books on architecture.〔 He was on the Advisory Board of Creative Cities,〔(Creative Cities Advisory Board ), retrieved February 20, 2011.〕 a group of architects with a stated mission of "putting culture and community at the heart of urban planning.〔(Creative Cities Mission Statement ), retrieved February 20, 2011.〕 Schwartz was the Owner and Founder of Frederic Schwartz Architects, in New York City. Prior to beginning his own firm, he had worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and then at Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown.〔 He regretted that one project on which he worked, a park planned to be located on top of the Hudson River landfill through which the Westway highway was to run, was never created. Without that park, he said, "a whole generation of children lost a place to play."〔Dunlap, David, New York Times, September 9, 2004, ("For Two 9/11 Memorials, A Man Who Listened" ), retrieved February 20, 2011.〕 Schwartz's love for New York drove his decision to locate his firm in SoHo, a neighborhood he "absolutely loves"—and where (in a 2008 interview) he said he could enjoy a view from his window that included the World Trade Center, the Woolworth Building, New York Harbor, the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building.〔"A Tale of Two Manhattans,"(Oculus, Fall 2008 ), retrieved February 21, 2011.〕 His office is located in an open studio setting, where he can "teach and nurture," as well as manage. Still drawing with a pen, he has stated that a "good day" for him is one that ends up with "a lot of ink on my hands."〔 Schwartz was well known as "an activist and a humanist whose architectural career has been dedicated to some of America's (and the world's) most visible waterfront projects."〔 In addition to the $200 million Staten Island Ferry Terminal and Peter Minuit Park, he was the Project Director for Architecture and Planning of the four mile (6 km) long, , $2.6 billion Westway State Park, the San Diego Harbor front Master Plan, the Singapore Harbor Master Plan, and the Master Plan for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 along four miles (6 km) of the Huang Pu River."〔( Advisory Board bio, CreativeCities.org ), retrieved February 5, 2011.〕 Schwartz's work has won him and his firm numerous national and international awards and design competitions, including the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture.〔 Schwartz's efforts in many areas are based on the goal of "green" affordable housing, including his work with the Housing Authority of Ghana on a joint public-private initiative to address the nation's affordable housing shortage through the design of modular pre-fabricated "green" housing for ten new towns with populations of approximately 20,000 residents each.〔(HaitiGreenHome.org ), retrieved February 21, 2011.〕 After the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, he founded the internationally renowned THINK Team, an international group of architects selected to master plan and re-imagine Ground Zero, that was runner-up for Innovative Master Planning at the World Trade Center.〔 In a report on this initiative, The New York Times described Schwartz as: "The Man Who Dared the City to THINK Again,"〔 and used his ideas as the framework for its “Think Big” Planning Study on the first anniversary of 9/11. 〔(SchwartzArch website ), retrieved February 5, 2011.〕 In 2010, Schwartz appeared in the documentary, "Saving Lieb House," the story of the efforts of world-renowned architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown to save the house (called "an iconic pop-art creation"〔(IMDB.com ), retrieved February 21, 2010.〕 and a "masterpiece of abstract modern design"〔Millard, Bill, Architect Magazine, 2008, ("Venturi House on Jersey Shore may Fall" ), retrieved February 21, 2011.〕) from its scheduled demolition."〔 The twenty-five minute film recounts how the home, built in the late 60s, was first slated for demolition by a developer who wanted to clear the area for new construction, but was ultimately saved by the dedication of a small group that was able to move it on a two-day journey by barge from Loveladies, New Jersey, to Long Island, New York.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederic Schwartz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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