2024-05-19T09:34:53-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150319422/influential-gsa-chief-architect-ed-feiner-passes-away-aged-75 Josh Niland 2022-08-03T13:29:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d9/d933a9759aea19bea96079624ae92b09.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The world of public design is mourning the loss of an influential figure at the news that former General Services Administration chief architect Ed Feiner passed away on July 1st at his home in suburban D.C. Feiner was known as the GSA&rsquo;s first chief architect and a &ldquo;driving force&rdquo; behind some of its most successful programs, including his spearheading of the acclaimed <a href="https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/design-and-construction/design-excellence/design-excellence-program" target="_blank">Design Excellence Program</a>, which is now in its 28th year.</p> <p>"He changed the design and construction of public buildings," Feiner&rsquo;s former colleague Leslie L. Shepherd <a href="https://www.enr.com/articles/54393-ed-feiner-driving-force-behind-gsas-design-excellence-program-dies-at-75" target="_blank">remembered</a> last month in the<em> Engineering News-Record</em>.</p> <p>Among the GSA projects Feiner&rsquo;s influence was cast over were&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/42923078/morphosis-architects" target="_blank">Thom Mayne</a>&rsquo;s Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse and San Francisco Federal Building; the Oklahoma City National Memorial design and subsequent Carol Ross Barney-designed Federal Building; and <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/3360816/pei-cobb-freed-partners" target="_blank">Pei Cobb Freed &amp; Partners</a> pot-stirring John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston. The list of architects he worked directly with inclu...</p>