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George H. Miller became a partner of Pei Cobb
Freed & Partners in 1989 at the age of 40. Upon the retirement of founding partner Eason Leonard in the following year, he assumed responsibility for the firm's administration. In this capacity he is responsible for new business development, contract negotiation and staff management.
Mr. Miller joined I. M. Pei and Partners (as Pei Cobb Freed & Partners was then known) in 1975 as a designer on Raffles International Center
Development Plan in Singapore and subsequently on Kapsad Housing in Teheran. He then served as project designer on the headquarters of Johnson & Johnson Baby Products in Montgomery Township, NJ (1981); and also assumed responsibility for construction administration at Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters in nearby New Brunswick, NJ (1983). He served as project manager of Choate Rosemary Hall Science Center in Wallingford, CT (1989) and ultimately as partner in charge of management for The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas (1989).Other institutional projects for which Mr. Miller served as management partner include the Central Terminal Complex at JFK International Airport in New York (1990) and its 320-foot-high FAA Air Traffic Control Tower
(1992); the UCLA Anderson School of Management (1995); Ball State Alumni Center in Muncie, IN (1998); the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse and Harborpark
on Fan Pier in Boston, MA (1998); Buck Institute for Age Research in Marin County, outside San Francisco, CA (1999); China Europe
International Business School in Shanghai (1999); the Republic of Korea Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (1999); College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (1999); Roman L. Hruska United States Courthouse in Omaha, NE (2000), Friend Center for Engineering Education at Princeton University
(2001); Trinity College Dublin–Sports Center (2001); United States Courthouse in Hammond, IN (2002); Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at the California Institute of
Technology (2002); Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri — St. Louis (2003); Queens
Family Court and City Agency Facility in Jamaica, NY (2003); Illinois State Museum in Springfield, IL (2003); the master plan for the Beijing Central Business District Core (2004); National Constitution Center on Independence Mall in Philadelphia (2003); Bellevue Hospital Center Ambulatory Care Facility in New York City (2005); Center for Government and International Studies at Harvard University (2005); Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center at Drexel University in Philadelphia (2005); International Monetary Fund Headquarters 2 in Washington D.C. (2005); and Richard J. Daronco Westchester
County Courthouse, White Plains, NY (2005); School of Engineering and Applied Science Master Plan / Renovation Program at Princeton University (2005); the Musée d'Art Moderne in Luxembourg (2006); United States Air Force Memorial
in Arlington, Virginia (2006) Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Headquarters in Paris (2008); Jacobi Medical Center Phase II Modernizations, in New York City (2008); Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (2008); Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2008); Integrated Township at Tellapur, a master plan in Hyderabad, India (2008); Butler College Dormitories, Princeton
University (2009); Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (2010); NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, NC (2010); and Palazzo Lombardia in Milan (2011).Corporate projects
for which Mr. Miller served as management partner include Credit Suisse First Boston at Canary Wharf in London (1991); the headquarters of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. (1996); Anggana Danamon, a five-acre office complex in the Golden Triangle of Jakarta, Indonesia (1997); and an office campus for The Capital Group Companies in San Antonio, TX (1998). He was also management partner for the recently completed head office of the ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam (1999, 2006) World Trade Center (1999) and Grand Marina Hotel (2002) in Barcelona, Taishin International Bank in Taipei (2004), Hyatt Center
office tower in Chicago (2005), an office campus for The Capital Group Companies in Irvine, CA, Torre Espacio
office building in Madrid (2008), and 200 West Street, the world headquarters of a financial institution in New York City (2010). Mr. Miller was also responsible for the management of several significant unexecuted corporate projects, including the headquarters of La Caixa, one of the largest banks in Europe (1998), and the headquarters of Vencor in Louisville, KY (1998).Investment building projects for which Mr. Miller served as management partner include Waterview, a hotel and office building in Rosslyn, VA (2008); Meudon Campus office complex in Meudon, France (2007); Rock Spring Park in Bethesda, MD (1994); the Friedrichstadt Passagen
in downtown Berlin (1996); POS Plaza in Shanghai (1999); 2099 Pennsylvania Avenue, an office building in Washington, D.C. (2001); Tour EDF at La Défense overlooking the central axis of Paris (2001); the mixed-use MID-Kyoto Development Project in Kyoto, Japan (1997); 1700 K Street, an office building in Washington, D.C. (2005); and Thamesgate in London and
Shining Tower in Taiwan, both unexecuted.Current projects 650 Newport Center Drive, an office tower in Newport Beach, California; 880 West Broadway office tower, San Diego; 1000 Connecticut Avenue, an office building in Washington, D.C.; Fiterman Hall at Borough of Manhattan Community College, and 7 Bryant Park, an office tower, Fordham University Law School and Residence Hall, and Public School 298Q, all in New York City; Universidad Europea de Madrid and Campus de la Justicia, both in Madrid, Spain;
Corporate Headquarters, Istanbul; Europe International Business School, Expansion Campus, in Shanghai; The Ellipse 360 Tower, a residential tower in Taipei; Tivoli Edge, a mixed-use project in Copenhagen; and World One and World Crest, luxury residential towers, and Supremus Office, a boutique office
building, all in Central Mumbai.Although fully immersed in practice from the outset of his career, Mr. Miller maintains a deep commitment to architectural education both within and beyond the classroom. He has served as teacher, lecturer and guest critic at Columbia University, Yale University, Pennsylvania State University and the New York Institute of Technology, and has contributed to various publications including San Leucio: Traditions in Transition, a critical study of an
18th-century utopian community in southern Italy, and also An Application of Modular Production Techniques to Ambulatory Care Facilities. Mr. Miller is largely responsible for implementing an Intern Development Program at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, which permits young architects to learn about their profession while broadening their experience through New York's rich cultural and educational opportunities. Within the architecture community, Mr. Miller has played a significant role in
developing a successful framework for international collaboration among architects, consultants and other specialists involved in building design and construction. He continues to work on numerous fronts to expand the public's understanding of the importance of architecture and its positive influence on daily life. Mr. Miller is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and is currently serving as the Institute's president. He was a participant in the AIA New York City Justice
Committee symposium and in the AIA Large Firm Roundtable. He is a member of the Architectural League of New York, the Municipal Arts Society, the Society of Architectural Historians and the Ordre des Architectes in Luxembourg. He is a past president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and is a director of the New York Building Congress as well as the New York Foundation for Architecture. Mr. Miller is on the National Board of Directors of the AIA, representing New
York State. Mr. Miller was born in Berlin. He emigrated with his family while still a child and became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He received his architectural education at Pennsylvania State University (B. Arch., 1973). See also Mr. Miller's Curriculum Vitae and
Project List.
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