An Architect's Journey: Designing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The journey that unfolds on the pages of this book is a gripping tale of personal and professional discovery as architect James Ingo Freed reflects on the underpinnings of civilization and his struggle to somehow develop an architectural language for the Holocaust. Written in the architect's own words and generously illustrated with photographs and a large selection of Freed's own sketches, the narrative offers a rare, very personal view into the design of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, one of the most powerful buildings of the twentieth century. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book support the James Ingo Freed Memorial Scholarship at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT.