Plaza project in New York City. In 1988, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994. In 1995, Freed was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He died on December 15, 2005, of Parkinson's disease, at age 75 in his home in Manhattan, in New York City. See also Chicago Seven (architects) References External links Biography: James Freed, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners website Special focus page: Biography on James Freed, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Gallery 1930 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American architects American neoclassical architects Modernist architects from the United States Hyde Park Academy High School alumni Jewish American writers Jewish architects Neurological disease deaths in New York (state) Deaths from Parkinson's disease American people of German-Jewish descent People from Essen People from the Rhine Province Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Illinois Institute of Technology alumni Fellows of the American Institute of Architects 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters