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 honour awards, including the 2004 design honour award for the Telenor Headquarters, 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 Centre and the Toronto Dominion Centre. Pran has also been senior project designer with SOM on several major projects. This new book looks closely at Pran's oeuvre, which includes a selection of his work from 1989 to 2005.

Statements

Thorn Mayne

Daniel Libeskind

Odile Decq

Fumihiko Maki

Telenor World Headquarters

505 Union Station, Vulcan

Headquarters

The Sail @ Marina Bay

New Terminal, Las Vegas

International Airport

Seoul Dome

New York Psychiatric Institute

Binghamton University, SUNY

New York Police Academy

163 Castlereagh Tower

Bergognone-Hines Office Building

Ministry of Justice and Ministry

of the Interior

Akerselva Atrium

Beijing Central Business District

(CBD) Financial Center

Kwun Tong Town Center

World Trade Center

Dallas/Fort Worth International

Airport, Arrival/Maintenance

Building

OKF International Airport

Cultural Foundation

Os[o Hotel/Conference Center

Viking Stadium

Landscape Meridiana Office Building

Kendall Square Medical Office

Building

Manggarai Central Train Station

Graha Kuningan

PMR Headquarters

TNB Tower

Oil Company Headquarters

Portofino Diamond C

Apartment Tower

Deloitte & Touche Headquarters

Banco Popular, Quito

Banco Popular, Ibarra

New Rikshospital

School of Architecture, University

of Minnesota

Schibsted Group Newspaper

Headquarters

Early Works

Student Projects

Essays

An Architecture of Complexity:

the Work of Peter Pran,

by Fumihiko Maki

The Return to Modernism,

by Christian Norberg-Schulz

Peter Pran and the modern

position, by Juhani Pallasmaa

Altered Reality, by Peter Pran

Bibliography

Awards

Selected Works

Publications

Lectures, Juries, Panels, Exhibits,

and Symposia

Project Credits

Photography Credits