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Gordon Bunshaft

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gordon Bunshaft 1909-90, American architect, b. Buffalo, N.Y. As chief designer for the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill , Bunshaft was responsible for Lever House, New York City's first glass curtain-wall skyscraper (1952), which has been widely imitated. Among his other works are the Manufacturers Trust Company building on Fifth Ave. at 43d St. in Manhattan, New York City; a complex of buildings near Hartford for the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; and the Banque Lambert, Brussels (1965). Author not available,... Read more
Gordon Bunshaft
Encyclopedia of World Biography Gordon Bunshaft The American architect Gordon Bunshaft (1909-1990) as chief designer for Skidmore, Owings & ... Niemeyer in 1988. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Gordon Bunshaft was born May 9, 1909, and raised in Buffalo, New York ... Read more
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the enormous art collection amassed by the industrialist Joseph H. Hirshhorn and presented ... Read more

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