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Article: Feiner to retire as GSA's chief architect.(News & Trends)
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- Building Design & Construction
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Edward A. Feiner, FAIA, who, as Chief Architect in the General Services Administration, led the effort to make Federal buildings beautiful as well as functional, is retiring at the end of January to enter the private sector.
Feiner, 58, joined the GSA in 1981 after stints in private practice and with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Appointed Chief Architect in 1996, he launched an agency-wide effort to elevate the design of government buildings. The GSA's Design Excellence Program brought in name designers--among them Richard Meier, Ralph Johnson, Carol Ross Barney, Henry Cobb, Bill Hellmuth, Moshe Safdie, Frances Halsbrand, Thom Mayne, Charles ...