Peter Q. Bohlin (born 1937 in

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, United States) is an American architect and the winner of the 2010 Gold Medal of the

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. He is a

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(FAIA) and a founding principal of

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Bohlin Cywinski Jackson is a United States-based architectural practice that was founded in 1965 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania by Peter Bohlin and Richard Powell. Bohlin's firm then merged with John F. Larkin and Bernard Cywinski's Philadelphia ...

, established originally in 1965 as Bohlin Powell in

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. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has six offices in

Wilkes-Barre Wilkes-Barre ( or ) is a city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Luzerne County. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It is the seco ...

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, and

. In 1994, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson was honored with the Firm Award presented by the American Institute of Architects. Peter Bohlin has been a guest design critic and a visiting professor at architecture schools. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Va ...

in 1958 and his Master of Architecture degree from

Cranbrook Academy of Art The Cranbrook Educational Community is an education, research, and public museum complex in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This National Historic Landmark was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. It consists of Cra ...

. He was inducted into RPI's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2011.

Selected projects

Copperhill Mountain Lodge The Copperhill Mountain Lodge is a design hotel on the top of the Förberget Mountain in Åre, Sweden. The hotel opened on December 8, 2008, and is currently one of five hotels in Sweden, and the only mountain hotel in Scandinavia referred to a ...

: Åre, Sweden *

Grand Teton National Park Grand Teton National Park is an American national park in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately , the park includes the major peaks of the Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Grand Teton ...

Discovery and Visitors Center: Jackson, Wyoming *

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: Apple Fifth Avenue * Apple Store: SoHo * Apple Store: Upper West Side * Apple Store: 14th Street * Apple Store: Boylston Street * Apple Store: Regent Street, London * Apple Store: Carrousel du

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, Paris * Apple Store: Sydney, Australia * Apple Store: Ginza, Japan * Apple Store: Shinsaibashi, Japan * Apple Store: San Francisco * Apple Store: Chestnut Street * Apple Store: Scottsdale, Arizona * Apple Store: North Michigan Avenue * Eggers Hall,

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, Syracuse, NY * The William J. Nealon Federal Building and Courthouse: Scranton, Pennsylvania * The Pocono Environmental Education Center: Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania *

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: Seattle, Washington *

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge ...

Digital Arts Facility: Santa Cruz, California *

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was r ...

, Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business: Oakland, California *

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& Headquarters: Emeryville, California * Adobe Systems: San Francisco, California *

Liberty Bell Center The Liberty Bell, previously called the State House Bell or Old State House Bell, is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in Philadelphia. Originally placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House (now renamed Independence ...

: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * The Barn at

Fallingwater Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, about southeast of Pittsburgh in the United States. It is built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Ru ...

, for the

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) is a private nonprofit conservation organization founded in 1932 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. WPC has contributed land to 12 state parks and conserved more than a quarter million acres o ...

* Ballard Library & Neighborhood Service Center:

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Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kille ...

, North & South Academic Buildings: Williamstown, Massachusetts * Forest House: Connecticut * The Ledge House: Maryland * Creekside House: California * Umerani Residence: California * House at the Shawangunks: New York * Combs Point Residence: New York * Envelope House: Washington * Gosline House: Washington * Woodway Residence: Washington * Lily Lake Residence: Pennsylvania * House in the Blue Mountains: Pennsylvania * House in the Endless Mountains: Pennsylvania * Waverly: Pennsylvania * Point House: Montana * House on Lake Tahoe: Nevada * Farrar Residence: Utah *

Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science The Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science is a $50 million, integrated research and educational facility designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson located on the Urbana campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Siebel Cen ...

, University of Illinois * Princeton Barn: New Jersey

Awards and honors

* 2010

AIA Gold Medal The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture." It is the Ins ...

66th Award Medalist * 2010 named a Senior Fellow of the

Design Futures Council The Design Futures Council is an interdisciplinary network of design, product, and construction leaders exploring global trends, challenges, and opportunities to advance innovation and shape the future of the industry and environment. Members inclu ...

. * Nine American Institute of Architects Honor Awards * 2008 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Project Award for Pocono Environmental Education Center * 2008 American Institute of Architects Pennsylvania Medal of Distinction * 2006

Confers Honorary Doctoral Degree * 2004 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumni Key Award * 1994 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Thomas W. Phelan Fellows Award

Books

Some of the books about Peter Bohlin's firm: * Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: The Nature of Circumstance, 2010 * Grand Teton: A National Park Building, 2009 * Farrar: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, 2007 (one of their residential projects) * Liberty Bell Center: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, 2006 * Arcadian Architecture: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: 12 Houses, 2005 * Ledge House: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, 1999 * The Architecture of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, 1994

References

External links

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Official WebsiteAmerican Institute of Architects Press release 2010 Gold MedalPeter Q. Bohlin Retrospective 1 of 2Peter Q. Bohlin Retrospective 2 of 2

Peter Bohlin interview
December 3, 2009 by David Ng

*AIA Pennsylvani

*Arcadian Architecture: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson 12 House

*Farrar: Bohlin Cywinski Jackso

*Grand Teton: A National Park Buildin

*Liberty Bell Center: Bohlin Cywinski Jackso

*Ledge House: Bohlin Cywinski Jackso

*Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: The Nature of Circumstanc

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