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Introduction
Design Development
The American Battle Monuments Commission engaged the
General Services Administration’s (GSA) Public Buildings Service to act as its agent to manage execution of the memorial.
A design by architect Friedrich St.Florian was selected for the memorial through a two-stage, open competition modeled on
the GSA’s Design Excellence Program.
The Design Competition
During Stage I, approximately 400 preliminary design
visions were reviewed by an Architect-Engineer (A-E) Evaluation Board. Entries were evaluated on their originality,
appropriateness, feasibility, and compliance with project requirements. The board selected six design visions to compete in
Stage II. Stage II design concepts were judged by a Design Jury. Evaluation criteria in this stage included design concept,
past performance, specialized experience and technical competence, professional qualifications, and capacity to accomplish the
work in the required time. The Design Jury identified the strengths and weaknesses of each concept and provided a rationale for
their final ranking to the A-E Board. The board, in turn, reviewed the jury’s recommendations and interviewed the design teams
before making a final recommendation to ABMC. St.Florian’s winning design was the unanimous choice throughout the Stage II
process. Bill Lacy, president of Purchase College, State University of New York, was the professional advisor for the competition.
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Design Jury
A 10-member independent design jury, the majority of whom are nationally recognized design professionals,
evaluated design concepts for the National World War II Memorial. The jury judged design proposals of six competition
finalists selected from approximately 400 initial entries, and made recommendations to the Architect-Engineer Evaluation
Board.
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David M. Childs
Chairman
Senior design partner in the New York office of Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill, LLP.
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John S. Chase
Member
President and CEO of John S. Chase, FAIA, Architect, Inc.
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Hugh Hardy
Member
FAIA, partner in Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates.
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Ada L. Huxtable
Member
Former architecture critic of the New York Times.
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Donald M. Kendall
Member
Co-founder of PepsiCo, Inc. and CEO for 21 years; World War II veteran.
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Admiral Robert L. Long, USN (Ret)
Member
World War II veteran.
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Laurie Olin
Member
Chairman, Department of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and a principal of
Hann/Olin Ltd., Philadelphia.
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Earl A. Powell, III
Member
Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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Cathy J. Simon
Member
A founding principal of Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris, she directs the firm’s architecture group (studio).
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General John W. Vessey, Jr., USA (Ret)
Member
World War II veteran.
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Architect-Engineer Evaluation Board
A 12-member architect-engineer evaluation board was appointed to evaluate design concepts for the World War II Memorial and
recommend a project design team to the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC). The board evaluated more than 400 design visions
before selecting six competition finalists. The board used recommendations from the Design Jury and interviews with design team members
to prepare a selection report that the ABMC used to select Friedrich St.Florian’s winning design. The selection report was written by
Bill Lacy, the board’s professional advisor.
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Hugh Hardy
Chairman
FAIA, a partner in Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates.
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J. Max Bond, Jr.
Member
FAIA, formerly a principal of Bond Ryder James, Architects, recently joined Davis, Brodie and Associates.
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Robert Campbell
Member
FAIA, architecture critic of the Boston Globe and a contributing editor of Architecture magazine.
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Edward A. Feiner
Member
FAIA, chief architect of the Public Buildings Service at the General Services Administration (GSA), serving as the agency’s design advocate.
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Colonel Mary A. Hallaren, USA (Ret)
Member
World War II veteran.
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Mary Margaret Jones
Member
Principal landscape architect of Hargreaves Associates.
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Diane Hauserman Pilgrim
Member
Director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Luther H. Smith
Member
World War II Tuskegee Airman.
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Cynthia Weese
Member
FAIA, founding principal of Weese Langley Weese, and dean of Washington University’s School of Architecture in St. Louis.
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Russell F. Weigley
Member
Distinguished university professor in the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Department of History, Temple University, Philadelphia.
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Ambassador F. Haydn Williams
Member
Former ABMC commissioner and chairman of its Site Selection and Design Committee; World War II veteran.
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General Louis H. Wilson, USMC (Ret)
Member
World War II veteran.
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Bill Lacy
Professional Advisor
FAIA, licensed architect and president of Purchase College, State University of New York.
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