Profile: Introduction

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Michael D. Flynn

Biography

Michael D. Flynn FAIA
Partner

Born Staten Island, New York
August 20, 1934
 

Education

Master of Architecture
University of Illinois  1962

Bachelor of Architecture
The Catholic University of America  1957
 

Military Experience

U.S. Air Force, Strategic Air Command  1957–1960
 

Professional Experience

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners  Partner  1989–
I. M. Pei & Partners  1966–1989
I. M. Pei & Associates  1962–1966

George Eicholtz & Associates  1961

Felheimer & Wagner  1957
 

Affiliations

American Institute of Architects, Fellow

New York City Building Code Seismic Design, Overview Sub-Committee  1995–present

Canadian General Standards Board, Glass Design Standards Committee  1982–1990

Glass Research and Testing Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Advisory Board  1978–1990

Insulating Glass Certification Council, Board of Governors  1983–1986
 

Teaching Appointments

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Lecturer  1981–1990

Cornell University, School of  Architecture, Art & Planning, Lecturer  1968–1969

University of Illinois, School of Architecture, Design Instructor  1961
 

Partial List of Presentations

Old Walls, New Walls, Climate Walls, Part 1, Conference on Green Buildings, New York, 2003.

Sustainability and Safety in High-Rise Curtain Wall Glass, Glass Processing Days Seminar, Tampere, Finland, 2003.

The Right Glass, Building Envelope Contractors Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2003

Wind Tunnel Testing and the Design of High-Rise Building Curtain Walls, American Society of Civil Engineers Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2000.

Inside, Outside and the Space Between, International Seminar: Architecture and Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1999.

State of the Art: Structural Steel Buildings, Seminar, Santiago, Chile, 1997.

Curtain Wall Seismic Design, New York Council of Consulting Engineers, New York City, 1995.

An Architect's View of the Building Envelope, Quarternario '93, Seminar, Singapore, 1993.

Exterior Cladding Systems, Symposium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, 1993.

Architectural Considerations, New England Regional Seminar on Seismic Engineering Issues, Boston, 1992.

The Design of Architectural Building Components in Seismic Environments, Seminar: The Practical Aspects of Earthquake Engineering, Architecture, and Construction, Columbia University, New York, 1991.

Design Intentions and Constraints, Department of Architecture, Ohio State University, 1988.

The Glass Pyramid, Grand Louvre, International Congress, New Technologies and Applications of Glass in Buildings, Bologna, 1987.

Architectural Intentions and the Selection of Curtain Wall Stone Support Systems, Exterior Stone Symposium, New York, 1987.

Building Envelope/Building Structure, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Structural Engineering, Zurich, 1987.

The Building Envelope, Materials Research and Design, Second Century of the Skyscraper Conference, Council on Tall Buildings and the Urban Habitat, Chicago, 1986.

Glass and the Building Envelope, Glass in the Environment Conference, Royal College of Art, London, 1986.

The Building Envelope, Design Intentions and Constraints, Dept. of Architecture, The Catholic University of America, 1985.

The Building Envelope, Design Intentions and Constraints, School of Architecture, Columbia University, 1985.

The Skyscraper Building Envelope, School of Architecture, Yale University, 1985.

Constraints on the Development of the Building Envelope, Harvard Graduate School of Design, March 1981, 1982.

Cladding Specifications, The Architectural Experience, Third Canadian Workshop on Wind Engineering, Vancouver, BC and Toronto, Ontario, 1981.
 

Publications

Flynn, Michael D., Sustainability and Safety in High-Rise Curtain Wall Glass," Proceedings, Glass Processing Days Seminar, Tampere, Finland, 2003.

Flynn, Michael D., "An Architect's View of the Building Envelope," Quarternario '93 Meeting with Architecture, Quarternario Foundation, Singapore, 1993.

Flynn, Michael D., "Architectural Considerations in Glazing," Sealant Technology in Glazing Systems, American Society for Testing Materials.

Flynn, Michael D., "Wind Loads on Cladding/Codes and Research," Wind Load Requirements for Buildings, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1976.

Robertson, Leslie E. and Michael D. Flynn, "Recent Developments and Trends; Wind Engineering Practice," Wind Engineering, Vol.2, Pergamon Press, 1980.

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