Norwegian American architect Peter Pran, FAIA, MNAL, is Design Principal with NBBJ Architects, and Professor of Architecture, University of Kansas. Pran has his education from Oslo Architecture School, now AHO (Bachelor), and IIT, Chicago (Masters). Peter Pran he is selected Fellow AIA - FAIA.
Pran believe in site specific architecture that is environmentally responsible. He has designed buildings in Norway, USA (NY, Seattle, Los Angeles, Las Vegas), China (Beijing, Shenyang),. S. Korea (Seoul), Brasil (Rio de Janeiro), Dubai, Italy (Milan), Spain (Barcelona), The Netherlands, Australia (Sydney).
Presently, Pran is working on two green buildings aiming for sustainable LEED Platinum; Grange Road in Singapore and Eton Shenyang in China – in collaboration with NBBJ LA and J. Ward.
Amongst his work, Pran has worked with Mies van der Rohe on Berlin National Museum and Chicago Federal Center.
As designer in charge, together with NBBJ-HUS-PKA he won the competition for the new Telenor headquarters in Oslo. The building is included in ”Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century of World Architecture” (2008), a book that the editors state “includes all the best buildings in the world designed the last 10 years”.
Akerselva Atrium in Oslo (2009) has received very good reviews, for intance from “PlusMOOD magazine” Aug. 2009, and by Lars Elton (Arch./Art Critic for VG) in “Estate magazine” Summer issue 2009 in article titled “Akerselva’s Nye Stolthet”/”The Pride of Akerselva”
Teamed up Pran and NBBJ, Link-Signatur won the competition for a new Vålerenga Stadium in Oslo in 2009.
Pran has won 15 international architecture competitions, and received 12 New York AIA Design Awards. In 2004, he received National AIA Design Honor Award for Telenor, Deloitte & Touche Headq., and New York Phychiatric Institute.
I 2009, he received Top MIMIP Award for 70-story The Sail @ Marina Bay, Singapore. The same year, he also received he Biennale Award for Architectural Body of Work, 2009, Buenos Aires; and he also was a main speaker at the Buenos Aires International Architecture Biennale, Oct. 6-10, 2009.
Peter Pran has 4 monographs; the latest (2007) with introductions by Thom Mayne, Daniel Libeskind, Odile Decq, and Fumihiko Maki (Mayne and Maki are Pritzker Prize winners), as well as earlier essays by Christian Norberg-Schulz and Juhani Pallasmaa.
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