Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. James Ingo Freed (June 23, 1930 December 15, 2005) was an American architect born in Essen, Germany during the Weimar Republic. His Jewish family fled to the United States when he was 9 to escape the regime of Nazi Germany. In 1953, Freed received a bachelor's degree in architecture from Illinois Institute of Technology. He then worked in Chicago and New York, including work with Mies van der Rohe. He began working with I.M. Pei in 1956 at the firm eventually known as Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. From 1975 to 1978, he was dean of the School of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, whose campus had been designed by Mies van der Rohe. He also taught at Cooper Union, Cornell University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia University, and Yale University.