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ID: 500078482
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500078482

 

Record Type: Person
Pokorny, Jan Hird (American architect, 1914-2008)

Note: Pokorny's New York firm specialized in restoring historic buildings and adapting them for reuse. He was a member of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission from 1997-2007. Pokorny fled the Nazis in 1939, becoming a United States citizen in 1945. He earned his master's degree at Columbia University and later taught there. American architect, New York, NY.

Names:
Pokorny, Jan Hird (preferred,V,index)
Jan Hird Pokorny (V,display)
Pokorny, Jan (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
Czech

Roles:
architect (preferred)

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Brno (Jihomoravský Kraj, Czech Republic) (inhabited place)
Died:  Manhattan (New York City, New York state, United States) (borough)

Events:
active:   New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
member of ....  Jan Hird Pokorny Architects and Planners  
................  (American architectural firm, contemporary) [500229081]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Pokorny, Jan Hird (I)

Biographies:
(American architect, 1914-2008) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American architect, New York, NY) ..... [AVERY]
(American architect, born 1914) ..... [AVERY]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Jan Hird Pokorny ........ [VP]
.................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Pokorny, Jan ........ [VP]
..........................  Weber, Jan Pokorny, New York Times (2008)
Pokorny, Jan Hird ........ [AVERY Preferred, VP Preferred]
...................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
...................................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
...................................  Weber, Jan Pokorny, New York Times (2008)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, Gallery Systems, VP]
....................  AIA Profile (1980-)
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals [online] (1993-) accessed 26 June 2003
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: no2011050062
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: no2011050062
....................  Weber, Jan Pokorny, New York Times (2008)
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, VP]
.......... AIA Profile (1980-)
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