Peter C. Pran, FAIA (19 October 1935 – 5 July 2017) 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.
Over the course of his career, he has created an extraordinarily innovative body of work, distinguished by its energy, fluidity, and complexity. Pran’s influence extends well beyond his own work and his firm’s practice, to the countless students he has taught in the US, Japan, Italy, and Denmark. He has made it his mission to persuade young seekers to think broadly, to design with integrity, and to embrace not only the aesthetic delights but also the social and moral responsibilities of architecture.
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