Peter Pran of NBBJ: Realizations

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 honor awards, including the 2004 design honor award for the Telenor Headquarters, and 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 Center and the Toronto Dominion Centre. Pran has also been senior project designer with SOM on several major projects. This new book will look closely at Pran's oeuvre, which includes a selection of his work from 1989 to 2005. Includes introductory statements by leading international architects Thom Mayne, Daniel Libeskind and Odile Decq, and an essay by Fumihiko Maki.