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Gordon Bunshaft FAIA (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990) was an American architect, a leading proponent of modern design in the mid-twentieth century. A partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Bunshaft joined the firm in 1937 and remained with it for more than 40 years.
May 9, 2020 · Learn about the life and work of Gordon Bunshaft, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who designed many influential skyscrapers and cultural buildings in the US and Saudi Arabia. See his projects, from the Lever House to the Hajj Terminal, and his style evolution from International Style to curves.
Learn about the life and work of Gordon Bunshaft, the architect who pioneered the International Style of skyscrapers in America. See his notable projects, such as Lever House, Johnson Library, and National Commercial Bank in Jeddah.
Gordon Bunshaft was an American architect and corecipient (with Oscar Niemeyer) of the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1988. His design of the Lever House skyscraper in New York City (1952) exerted a strong influence in American architecture.
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Gordon Bunshaft was awarded the Brunner Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1955, and its gold medal in 1984. He also received the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Gordon Bunshaft (May 9th, 1909 - August 6th, 1990) was an eminent modernist American architecture. For his achievements in architecture he was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1988. Gordon Bunshaft was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Gordon Bunshaft was a partner in the New York office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and was an adherent of European modernism as well as one of the leaders of a generation of architects who made buildings of glass, metal, reinforced concrete, and travertine familiar in North America.
