Millennium Magazine_2ndEd

A Marquis Who's Who Magazine 277 G eorge Lee Nielsen considers himself a journeyman architect. He has practiced continuously for more than 55 years in the mainstream of architectural design and construction and on the “front line,” as he characterizes it. He still practices today. At an early age, his mother noticed his artistic aptitude and told him that he should grow up to be an architect. That notion was intensified by his uncle E. Sam Tucker, who was a senior architect for Standard Oil (BP), directing such projects as their Standard Oil Tower and Technical Research Center in the Chicago area. His example played a major part in Mr. Nielsen’s becoming an architect. Mr. Nielsen began his formal education at Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1961 and completed it at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Master of Architecture in 1962. In 1964, after his service in the U.S. Army, he began his career in Boston as a designer in the offices of Perry, Shaw, Hepburn and Dean, then was a project architect for F.A. Stahl & Associates and Peirce and Pierce Architects until 1969. In 1970, he moved to Cincinnati and continued his career at A.M. Kinney, Inc., an engineering and architectural firm where he amassed over 45 years of leadership experience as a project architect andmanager, partner, president and director. Mr. Nielsen points with great satisfaction at designing and leading design teams of architects and engineers in executing over 125 projects. Some of his major projects are AVCO (Textron) Corporation’s research laboratory outside Boston; Square D’s (Schneider Electric) Central Distribution Center in Kentucky; corporate headquarters renovations for the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (Duke Energy); Sandoz’ (Novartis) Drug Discovery Research Laboratory Building 405 in New Jersey; NALCO Water’s (Ecolab) U.S. and European corporate headquarters and technical centers near Chicago and Amsterdam; the University of Kentucky Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building; and Chandler Medical Center’s patient care facility towers. Mr. Nielsen attributes his success to working with many talented co-workers, constructors and trusting clients. GEORGE LEE NIELSEN SENIOR PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT A.M. Kinney, Inc. Cincinnati, OH