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David Childs
American architect
For the professor, see David Childs (academic).
David Magie Childs (born April 1, 1941) is an American architect and chairman of the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.[1] He is the architect of the new One World Trade Center in New York City.[2]
Early life and education
Childs graduated from Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1959[1] and from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1963.[3] He first majored in zoology before he then turned to architecture at the Yale School of Architecture and earned his master's degree in 1967.[4]
Career
He joined the Washington, D.C., office of SOM in 1971, after working with Nathaniel Owings and Daniel Patrick Moynihan on plans for the redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Childs was a design partner of the firm in Washington until 1984, when he moved to SOM's New York Office.
His major projects include: in Wash