Julie Beckman is an American architect who co-designed the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial with her husband Keith Kaseman. [1] Costing $22 million to construct, the memorial contains 184 benches with 9/11 victims' names inscribed and illuminated by reflecting pools. The memorial opened for public visits on September 11, 2008.
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Beckman graduated from Morristown-Beard School in Morristown, NJ in 1991. Several years later, she presented the Lehman Lecture at the school. Morristown-Beard School awarded Beckman their Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009. [2]
In 1995, Beckman graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania with a degree in growth and structure of cities. [3] Beckman then completed a master of architecture degree at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University in Manhattan in 2001. [4]
Kaseman Beckman Advanced Strategies
In 2002, Beckman and Kaseman formed the firm Kaseman Beckman Advanced Strategies (KBAS) to join the competition for the Pentagon Memorial contract. After competing against more than 1,000 entries from around the world, [1] the Pentagon awarded them the contract in 2003. [4] In 2012, the American Institute of Architects awarded KBAS a National Medal of Service (a gold medallion) at their Architects of Healing ceremony. The ceremony honored architects involved in post-9/11 rebuilding work and memorial construction. [5]
In, 2006, the Architectural League of New York selected KBAS as one of their winners of the Young Architects competition for projects in the theme Instability. [6] Five years later, the American Council of Engineering Companies awarded the firm their National Honor Award. That year, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America awarded KBAS a Philament Award, and McGraw-Hill Construction selected them for Project of the Year in park/side/landscaping. In 2011, the Design-Build Institute of America awarded KBAS their Design-Build Excellence Award. [7]
Academia Career
Beckman taught in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 2005 to 2013. She also served as associate chair and director of student services for the Department of Architecture. In 2014, Beckman joined the faculty of the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Tennessee's (UT) main campus in Knoxville. She serves as their director of student services. Speaking about her architectural research and design activities, Beckman presented an invited lecture in the Church Memorial Lecture Series at UT on January 13, 2014. [7]
Early Architectural Career
Before co-founding KBAS, Beckman worked as an architect at DeLacour & Ferrara Architects, P.C. in Brooklyn, New York (2001-2002). She also worked at Stephen Tilly, Architect in Dobbs Ferry, New York (2002-2003).
Family
Beckman married Keith Kaseman in 2006. They have one child.
References
- ^ a b Dwyer, Timothy (16 June 2006). "9/11 Pentagon Memorial to Reflect Pangs of Loss, Recollections of Joy". The Washington Post.
- ^ [Distinguished Alumni: 2009 - Julie Beckman - 1991]
- ^ "Inscription in the Earth". Alumnae Bulletin of Bryn Mawr (Summer 2003).
- ^ a b [Pentagon Memorial Designers' Statement, Background Information, Project Description and Bios]
- ^ [The Architects of Healing]
- ^ [2006 Young Architects Forum]
- ^ a b "UT taps UPenn lecturer, architect as director of student services". The News Sentinel. 10 January 2014.