BUNSHAFT, GORDON

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).

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Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture - Vol. 2
Book by R. Stephen Stennott; Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004
Subjects: Architecture, Modern--20th Century--Encyclopedias
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Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan
Book by Heide Fehrenbach, Uta G. Poiger; Berghahn Books, 2000
Subjects: Europe--Civilization--American Influences, Japan--Civilization--American Influences, Popular Culture--Europe, Popular Culture--Japan, Popular Culture--United States
...Chase Manhattan Bank. Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings...Designed by 198 Gordon Bunshaft of SOM in association with Otto...Japan as History , ed. Andrew Gordon Berkeley, 1993 , 239-58...
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Architecture Today and Tomorrow
Book by Cranston Jones; McGraw-Hill, 1961
Subjects: Architecture, Modern--20th Cent
...Almost instinctively he recapitulated the entire architectural history of the spiral in his work. In a project for the Gordon Strong Planetarium on Sugar Loaf Mountain, Maryland, Wright had used the same spiraling ramp employed by Assyrian King...
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The American Corporation Today
Book by Carl Kaysen; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Corporations--United States
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Martha Inc: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Book by Christopher M. Byron; Wiley, 2002
Subjects: Businesswomen--United States--Biography, Home Economists--United States--Biography, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Stewart, Martha
...firm, referring to the 1987 Oliver Stone financial thriller in which Michael Douglas plays a corrupt stock swindler named Gordon Gekko, who boasts, Greed is good. More importantly, to describe her as one of the firms top salespeople, doesnt present...
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The Three Amigos-SOM
Journal article by Tom Heneghan; Architectural Science Review, Vol. 51, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Skidmore, Owings and Merril: SOM since 1936 (Book)--Book reviews
...that year, employed the young, abrasive, brilliant Gordon Bunshaft, who would become the dominant design personality of...engineering--and became the third named partner, with Bunshaft joking that he could not have been chosen, since the...


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magazine articles on: Bunshaft Gordon  - 4 results

 
 
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Todd Eberle: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Magazine article by Glen Helfand; Artforum International, Vol. 44, March 2006
Subjects: Architectural photography--Criticism and interpretation, Architectural photography--Exhibitions, Eberle, Todd--Exhibitions, Photography, Architectural--Criticism and interpretation, Photography, Architectural--Exhibitions
...edited that it almost appears as a photographic record of work by the artist Agnes Martin." Untitled No. 4, 2002, Gordon Bunshaft/Skidmore, Owings Merrill, an image of Lever House in New York, comes closest to justifying this comparison. Yet...
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Sculpting the Soul
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 273, December 3, 2001
Subjects: Giacometti, Alberto--Exhibitions, Sculpture--Exhibitions
...architect of Chase Manhattans headquarters downtown, Gordon Bunshaft, had envisioned three colossal walking figures, high...plaza under artificial light. That is doubtless why Bunshaft proposed that the figures be immensely tall--but that...
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Architecture & Ideology
Magazine article by Roger Kimball; New Criterion, Vol. 21, December 2002
Subjects: Architects--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Architects--Exhibitions, Architects--Works, Architectural design--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Architectural design--Exhibitions, Eisenman, Peter--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Eisenman, Peter--Exhibitions, Eisenman, Peter--Works, Krier, Leon--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Krier, Leon--Exhibitions, Krier, Leon--Works
...cannot change it. Similarly, there is an important sense in which we are all modernists now, Mr. Krier as much as Gordon Bunshaft. It doesnt matter whether you favor curtain walls or Corinthian columns, jeweled concrete or cedar shakes. The issue...
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Architecture-Eye: Hal Foster on Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Magazine article by Hal Foster; Artforum International, Vol. 45, February 2007
Subjects: Architectural firms--Services, Architectural practice--Services, Architectural services--Services, Diller and Scofidio--Services
...architects were Max Abramovitz (Philharmonic Hall, 1958-62), Wallace K. Harrison (Metropolitan Opera House, 1958-66), Gordon Bunshaft (Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, 1958-65), and Philip Johnson (New York State Theater, 1958-64).


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newspaper articles on: Bunshaft Gordon  - 2 results

 
 
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FALL PREVIEW: ARCHITECTURE; Modernism's March on Washington
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 8, 2007
Subjects: Architects
...two federal buildings in Southwest Washington. "For Gordon Bunshaft," an installation by conceptual artist Dan Graham...museums sculpture garden, will reflect views of Mr. Bunshafts architecture, perhaps offering a fresh perspective...
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Protecting America, the Beautiful; Lady Bird's Works Flower Today
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 14, 2007
...time to pick an architect for the LBJ Library and Museum at the University of Texas at Austin, she helped to choose Gordon Bunshaft, who designed the Hirshhorn Museum. "She was deeply involved in the creation of that building," says Harry Middleton...


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encyclopedia articles on: Bunshaft Gordon  - 5 results

 
 
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Bunshaft, Gordon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUNSHAFT, GORDON 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 Citys first glass curtain-wall...
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...
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Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...International style during the postwar period. Their best-known early work is Lever House (1952), which was designed by Gordon Bunshaft and reflects the influence of Mies Van der Rohe . Later in the century the firm adopted a postmodern aesthetic...
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Pritzker Prize
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...United States); 1985, Hans Hollein (Austria); 1986, Gottfried Boehm (Germany); 1987, Kenzo Tange (Japan); 1988, Gordon Bunshaft (United States) and Oscar Niemeyer Soares (Brazil); 1989, Frank Gehry (United States); 1990, Aldo Rossi...
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Skyscraper
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...commercial interest. In New York during the 1950s, public plazas were incorporated into the designs of the Lever House by Gordon Bunshaft and the Seagram Building of Mies van der Rohe . These International style buildings are also examples of the...


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