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{{short description|American architect|bot=PearBOT 5}}
'''Julie Beckman''' is an American architect who designed the [[Pentagon Memorial|National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial]] with her husband Keith Kaseman.<ref name="washingtonPost">{{cite news | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=9/11 Pentagon Memorial to Reflect Pangs of Loss, Recollections of Joy | date=16 June 2006 | first=Timothy | last=Dwyer}}</ref> The $22 million memorial, which includes 184 benches with names of victims of the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001 inscribed and illuminated by [[reflecting pools]], opened on September 11, 2008.
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Beckman graduated from [[Morristown-Beard School]] in [[Morristown, New Jersey]] in 1991. She later delivered the school's Lehman Lecture and received its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mobeard.org/mbs/alumni/distAlumni.php?id=14 |title=Distinguished Alumni: 2009 - Julie Beckman - 1991 |access-date=2014-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202164919/http://mobeard.org/mbs/alumni/distAlumni.php?id=14 |archive-date=2014-02-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 1995, Beckman graduated from [[Bryn Mawr College]] in [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania]], with a degree in growth and structure of cities.<ref>{{cite journal | journal=Alumnae Bulletin of Bryn Mawr | issue=Summer 2003 | title=Inscription in the Earth}}</ref> In 2001, Beckman completed a master of architecture degree at the [[Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation|Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation]] at [[Columbia University]] in Manhattan.<ref name="memorial">
==Kaseman Beckman Advanced Strategies==
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[[File:Defense.gov News Photo 030303-D-2987S-028.jpg|thumb|Keith Kaseman and Julie Beckman present the memorial design at a Pentagon press conference March 3, 2003]]
[[File:US Navy 080904-N-5319A-008 The Pentagon Memorial honoring the 184 people killed at the Pentagon and on American Airlines flight 77.jpg|thumb|right|A photo of the monument, shortly before it opened]]
In 2002, Beckman and Kaseman formed the firm [[Kaseman Beckman Advanced Strategies]] (KBAS) to compete for the Pentagon Memorial contract. The Pentagon selected their proposal from among more than 1,000 entries from around the world,<ref name="washingtonPost" /> awarded them the contract in 2003.<ref name="memorial" /> In 2012, the [[American Institute of Architects]] awarded KBAS a National Medal of Service (a gold medallion) at their Architects of Healing ceremony, which honored architects involved in 9/11 memorials and rebuilding efforts.<ref>
Beckman and Kaseman's firm has also several other notable awards. In 2011, the [[American Council of Engineering Companies]] awarded KBAS their National Honor Award. That year, the [[Illuminating Engineering Society of North America]] awarded the firm a Philament Award, and [[McGraw Hill Financial#McGraw Hill Construction|McGraw-Hill Construction]] selected them for Project of the Year in park/side/landscaping. The [[Design Build#Design-build institutes|Design-Build Institute of America]] also awarded KBAS their Design-Build Excellence Award.<ref name="newsSentinel">{{cite news | newspaper=The News Sentinel | title=UT taps UPenn lecturer, architect as director of student services | date=10 January 2014 | url=http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2014/jan/10/ut-taps-upenn-lecturer-architect-as-director-of/?print=1}}</ref> In 2006, the [[Architectural League of New York]] named KBAS as a winner of the Young Architects competition for projects in the theme Instability.<ref>
==Academia==
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==Family==
In 2006, Beckman married Kaseman, whom she met during graduate studies at Columbia University. They have one child.<ref>
==References==
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[[Category:University of Tennessee faculty]]
[[Category:American women academics]]
[[Category:21st-century American women]]
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