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Born Staten Island, New York
August 20, 1934
Education Master of Architecture
University of Illinois 1962
Bachelor of Architecture
The Catholic University of America 1957
Military Experience U.S. Air Force, Strategic Air Command 19571960
Professional Experience
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Partner 1989
I. M. Pei & Partners 19661989
I. M. Pei & Associates 19621966 George Eicholtz & Associates 1961 Felheimer & Wagner 1957
Affiliations American Institute of Architects, Fellow New York City Building Code Seismic Design, Overview Sub-Committee 1995present Canadian General Standards Board, Glass Design Standards Committee 19821990 Glass
Research and Testing Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Advisory Board 19781990 Insulating Glass Certification Council, Board of Governors 19831986
Teaching Appointments Harvard Graduate School of Design, Lecturer 19811990 Cornell University, School of Architecture, Art & Planning, Lecturer 19681969 University of Illinois, School of Architecture, Design Instructor 1961
Partial List of Presentations
Old Walls, New Walls, Climate Walls, Part 1, Conference on Green Buildings, New York, 2003.Sustainability and Safety in High-Rise Curtain Wall Glass, Glass Processing Days Seminar, Tampere, Finland, 2003.
The Right Glass, Building Envelope Contractors Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2003 Wind Tunnel Testing and the Design of
High-Rise Building Curtain Walls, American Society of Civil Engineers Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2000. Inside, Outside and the Space Between, International Seminar: Architecture and Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1999. State of the Art: Structural Steel Buildings, Seminar, Santiago, Chile, 1997.Curtain Wall Seismic Design, New York Council of Consulting Engineers, New York City, 1995. An Architect's View of the Building Envelope, Quarternario '93, Seminar, Singapore, 1993. Exterior Cladding Systems,
Symposium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, 1993. Architectural Considerations, New England Regional Seminar on Seismic Engineering Issues, Boston, 1992. The Design of Architectural Building Components in Seismic Environments, Seminar: The Practical Aspects of Earthquake Engineering, Architecture, and Construction, Columbia University, New York, 1991. Design Intentions and Constraints, Department of Architecture, Ohio State University, 1988. The Glass Pyramid, Grand
Louvre, International Congress, New Technologies and Applications of Glass in Buildings, Bologna, 1987. Architectural Intentions and the Selection of Curtain Wall Stone Support Systems, Exterior Stone Symposium, New York, 1987. Building Envelope/Building Structure, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Structural Engineering, Zurich, 1987. The Building Envelope, Materials Research and Design, Second Century of the Skyscraper Conference, Council on Tall
Buildings and the Urban Habitat, Chicago, 1986. Glass and the Building Envelope, Glass in the Environment Conference, Royal College of Art, London, 1986. The Building Envelope, Design Intentions and Constraints, Dept. of Architecture, The Catholic University of America, 1985. The Building Envelope, Design Intentions and Constraints, School of Architecture, Columbia University, 1985. The Skyscraper Building Envelope, School of Architecture, Yale University,
1985. Constraints on the Development of the Building Envelope, Harvard Graduate School of Design, March 1981, 1982. Cladding Specifications, The Architectural Experience, Third Canadian Workshop on Wind Engineering, Vancouver, BC and Toronto, Ontario, 1981.
Publications Flynn, Michael D., Sustainability and Safety in High-Rise Curtain Wall Glass," Proceedings, Glass Processing Days Seminar, Tampere, Finland, 2003. Flynn, Michael D., "An
Architect's View of the Building Envelope," Quarternario '93 Meeting with Architecture, Quarternario Foundation, Singapore, 1993. Flynn, Michael D., "Architectural Considerations in Glazing," Sealant Technology in Glazing Systems, American Society for Testing Materials. Flynn, Michael D., "Wind Loads on Cladding/Codes and Research," Wind Load Requirements for Buildings, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1976. Robertson, Leslie E. and Michael D. Flynn,
"Recent Developments and Trends; Wind Engineering Practice," Wind Engineering, Vol.2, Pergamon Press, 1980. |
