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architect
Alfred Preis was an Austrian-born American architect best known for designing the United States Ship Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.
Domicil ohrensessel alfred preis biography
Education
He studied at the Vienna Technical University, earned his Architecture diploma in 1938, and worked as a site manager for Redlich and Berger and as a freelance designer for interiors, furniture and store fronts.
Career
Born and raised in Vienna, Austria, Preis spent his early architecture career in Vienna.
Internment
He eventually settled in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was detained for three months at the Sand Island Detainment Camp in Hawaii after the December 7, 1941 attack as part of the internment policy of Japanese and German Americans.
Preis designed several landmark buildings in Honolulu, including the entrance to the Honolulu Zoo, but is best known for the United States Ship Arizona Memorial.
His design for the memorial was selected from those of seve