abstract:Frederic Schwartz (born 1951) is an American architect, author, and city planner whose work includes "Empty Sky," the New Jersey 9-11 Memorial, which was dedicated in Liberty State Park on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
"Ifthere is onesinglepictureassociated withRobert Venturi'sworkandPostmodernarchitecture, itisthe front ofhismother'shouse," wrote architect and authorFredericSchwartz in 1992.
It beat the other finalist team, led by New York-based architects Rafael Vinoly and FredericSchwartz, which proposed two decorative steel towers in memory of the twin towers destroyed in the 11 September 2001 hijacked plane attacks.