Frederic Schwartz, Architect



The Nashville Civic Design Center is pleased to announce an exhibit of design projects by New York architect Frederic Schwartz. After witnessing the tragedies of September 11th firsthand, Schwartz founded THINK team and went on to become a finalist for re-planning the World Trade Center. In September 2002 Schwartz was featured in a New York Times profile entitled "The Man Who Dared the City to THINK Again."

Frederic Schwartz has won a number of national and international design competitions including most recently the Shanghai Fortune World Tower (2005), the New Jersey State (2004) and Westchester County 9/11 Memorials (2004), the new $200 million, 250,000 sf, Staten Island Ferry Terminal at the tip of Manhattan serving 65,000 commuters and tourists daily, the $100 million, the 850,000 sf, Southwest Regional Capitol of France in Toulouse, the 13-acre Santa Fe Railyard Park and Plaza (2004), and the New York City Housing and Development (2003) competition for 500,000 sf of affordable and market rate housing in Harlem (under construction).

Visit http://www.schwartzarch.com/ for more information.

Exhibition runs Friday, October 28th through Tuesday, January 3rd.
Open Monday - Friday from 9:00 am - 5:30 pm.