U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

James Ingo Freed fled to America from Germany as a child. He studied architecture under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology and joined the firm of I. M. Pei in 1956. Among Freed’s works are the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City (1986), the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (1993), the San Francisco Main Public Library (1995), and the United States Air Force Memorial (2006), which was completed after his death.