Frederick Noyes

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Frederick Noyes, FAIA, has spent his professional life immersed in his twined passions of architecture, biology, and education. After graduating from Harvard in 1966 with a degree in biology, he taught that subject at Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama. He returned to Cambridge to obtain his M.Arch. from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1972. His early work as an architect included affiliations with the Cambridge Seven Associates, Graham Gund Architects, and The Ritchie Organization. He has been a principal in his own architectural firms for over 40 years. He was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 2001 and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Education from the Boston Architectural College (BAC) in 2007. Mr. Noyes was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he was literally weaned on the influences of the first generation of great modern architects Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, and his father, Eliot Noyes.

Throughout his career, Noyes has maintained close associations with academia—both as student (over a decade of graduate studies in biology) and teacher (visual studies and Harvard; lecturer in biochemistry at Harvard Extension; biology at Wheelock College; and architecture at the BAC). At the BAC, Mr. Noyes has taught at all levels of the school, served on numerous committees and chaired the Board of Directors from 1995-1999. He is currently an Overseer there.

Mr. Noyes has put his unique perspective to work on projects as varied as hospital design and master plans, and the Clinton 1994 "Summer White House" on Martha's Vineyard (where there are more than 20 other projects by Noyes). In each instance, he tries to instill human behavior (biology, in essence) into the design process.