Fred Clarke, FAIA, RIBA, JIA

Senior Principal
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

Lecture Title: Maintaining Quality in a Global Practice

Monday, September 19, 2011
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Sponsored by the Alden Orput Endowment Practice Series

A founding member of the firm, Fred Clarke is a Design Principal for all the New Haven studio projects. Over the past 34 years, he has been responsible for commissions with widely varied programs and locations, from San Francisco to Dubai, from Tokyo to Miami.

Mr. Clarke's experience includes serving as Senior Design Principal for the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the World Financial Center in New York, One Canada Square at Canary Wharf in London, Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower in Tokyo, and the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong. He is currently serving as Senior Design Principal for many projects including Transbay Transit Center and Tower in San Francisco, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Vietcombank Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, the Tong Shan Jie development in Shanghai.

A career-long teacher, Mr. Clarke has been a faculty member of Yale University, Rice University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. In addition, he has chaired design juries and panels for many professional organizations, including the Urban Land Institute and national, state and regional affiliates of the American Institute of Architects. He has written and published on many subjects, including urban regeneration, sustainability, public art and architecture and tall building design.

Fred Clarke met Cesar Pelli in 1969 while still a student. In 1970, upon graduation with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin, he joined Gruen Associates in Los Angeles where Mr. Pelli was Partner for Design. For the following seven years, Mr. Clarke served as senior Designer of the United States Embassy in Tokyo, the School of Music for Yale University, and the headquarters for the Daehan Kyoyuk Insurance Company in Seoul.

In 1992, Mr. Clarke was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. In 1997, he became a Registered Architect in Japan. In 1998, he received a Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, the oldest artists' colony in the United States, to research and write on social responsibilities in large-scale urban projects. He is now member of its Board of Directors.