SKIDMORE, OWINGS AND MERRILL

American architectural firm founded in 1936 in New York City by Louis Skidmore (1897–1962), Nathaniel A. Owings (1903–84), and John O. Merrill (1896–1975). The firm helped to popularize the 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. The firm has more recently adopted a postmodern aesthetic, seen in such buildings as the Worldwide Plaza in New York City (1989).

See A. Bush-Brown, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill: Architecture and Urbanism, 1973–1983 (1984).

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books on: Skidmore Owings and Merrill  - 113 results

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Architecture Today and Tomorrow
Book by Cranston Jones; McGraw-Hill, 1961
Subjects: Architecture, Modern--20th Cent
...law, Nathaniel Owings Cornell, 1927 . It...for commissions; Skidmore would be based in...engineer, John O. Merrill. This team was the hard core Skidmore and Owings meant to...full time of John O. Merrill and a staff of 450...
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Japan in the Free World Economy: A Statement on National Policy by the Research and Policy Committee of the Committee for Economic Development
Book by Keizai Doyukai; Committee for Economic Development, 1963
Subjects: Japan--Economic Conditions--1945-1989, Japan--Foreign Economic Relations
...Committee for Economic Development NATHANIEL A. OWINGS, Partner Skidmore, Owings Merrill PHILIP D. REED New York, New York FREDERICK...Schlumberger Limited NATHANIEL A. OWINGS, Partner Skidmore, Owings Merrill T. S. PETERSEN San Francisco, California...
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Explorations: The Visual Arts since 1945
Book by Katherine Hoffman; HarperCollins, 1991
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th Century--Themes, Motives
...Courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York. 2.58. Skidmore, Owings Merrill, Lever House, New York, 1951-52. 2.59. Skidmore, Owings Merrill, John Hancock Center, Chicago, 1965-70...
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Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States
Book by Max Page, Randall Mason; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Architecture--Conservation And Restoration, Art--Conservation And Restoration, Cultural Property--Protection
...Institute of Technology, 1968), 49-68. 65. Skidmore, Owings Merrill, "Outline of Preliminary Report, Illinois...Forum 85 (September 1946), 102-3. 67. Skidmore, Owings Merrill, "Outline of Preliminary Report." 68. Ibid...
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The Urban Lifeworld
Book by Peter Madsen, Richard Plunz; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: City And Town Life, City And Town Life In Art, City And Town Life In Literature, Copenhagen (Denmark), Intellectual Life, Popular Culture
...staged an exhibition of recent buildings by Skidmore, Owings Merrill. Lever House, still on the drafting table...Frank Lloyd Wright When the Museum invited Skidmore, Owings and Merrill to exhibit its recent buildings, it did so...
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journal articles on: Skidmore Owings and Merrill  - 9 results

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Midtowns, Megastructures, and World Cities
Journal article by Larry R. Ford; The Geographical Review, Vol. 88, 1998
Subjects: Cities and towns--History, Geography, Historical--Economic aspects, Skyscrapers--Economic aspects
...by firms such as Hellmuth, Obata Kasabaum; Skidmore, Owings Merrill; and RTKL International (World Architecture...office skyscraper designed by the Chicago firm of Skidmore, Owings, Merrill (Architecture 1998). The Jin Mao Building...
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Substantial Similarity and Architectural Works: Filtering out "total Concept and Feel"
Journal article by Daniel Su; Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 101, 2007
Subjects: Architecture, Copyright, History, Incentives, Infringement, Interfaces, Market structure, Software
...luminaries.122 Among the members of the panel was the defendant David Childs, a prominent architect and a partner at Skidmore Owings Merrill (SOM), one of the largest architectural firms in the world.123 Childss review of the Olympic Tower was glowing...
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The "matchbox on a Muffin": the Design of Hospitals in the Early Nhs
Journal article by Jonathan Hughes; Medical History, Vol. 44, 2000
...lack of co-ordination, and inadequate funding, owing to either poverty or neglect. 115 Of course the hospital...demonstrated by New Yorks Lever House of 1952 (by Skidmore Owings Merrill (SOM), Figure 7) where a simple tower of office...
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An-aesthetics and Architecture
Journal article by Karen Dale, Gibson Burrell; Tamara : Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, Vol. 2, 2002
Subjects: Aesthetics, Architecture, Attitudes, Sensitivity
...1986) of Albert Kahns factories and the work of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill whom are seen as the utilitarian heirs to Kahn...identify the company who paid for it to be built. Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) were just such a company who...
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"A Catalyst for Downtown": Detroit's Renaissance Center
Journal article by Francis Desiderio; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 35, 2009
Subjects: Central business districts--Buildings and facilities, Central business districts--History, Detroit Renaissance Center--Design and construction, Detroit Renaissance Center--History
...the trend, and lists Portmans firm (as well as Skidmore, Owings and Merrill SOM; Pereira and Associates; Johnson/Burgee...them River East Center. General Motors hired Skidmore, Owings and Merrill to redesign the center to its specifications...
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American Connection: In the First of an Occasional Series, Kenneth Powell Talks to a Group of Leading Architects about the State of Practice in Their Home Country and Further Afield. the Series, in Association with Keim Paints, Begins with the United States
Magazine article by Kenneth Powell; The Architectural Review, Vol. 223, April 2008
Subjects: Architectural firms--Management, Architectural firms--Social aspects, Architectural practice--Management, Architectural practice--Social aspects, Architectural services--Management, Architectural services--Social aspects, Civilization--Evaluation, Culture--Evaluation, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill L.L.P.--Management
...threatened with a rash of quite unsuitable buildings. Two decades on, practices with American origins such as Skidmore, Owings Merrill, Kohn Pedersen Fox and HOK seem to have put down firm roots in London. Its hard, indeed, to categorise such...
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The Land of Big Sur: Conservation on the California Coast
Magazine article by John Walton; California History, Vol. 85, Winter 2007
Subjects: Offshore oil well drilling--Protection and preservation, Oil well drilling, Submarine--Protection and preservation, Panetta, Leon, Publishing industry--Protection and preservation, Sierra Club, University of California Press
...but no paid labor, owing perhaps to a family...architecture and planning firm Skidmore, Owings Merrill to conduct a study of...connection: Nathaniel Owings and his conservationist...architects Hall and Goodhue. Owings was something of a visionary...
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Cultured Pearl: Working in the Hot House of China, SOM Attempt to Radically Redefine the Relationship between Tall Buildings and Their Energy Consumption
Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 224, October 2008
Subjects: High rise buildings--Energy use, Skyscrapers--Energy use, Tall buildings--Energy use
...a new synthesis between them. J. M. PEARL RIVER TOWER, GUANGZHOU, CHINA ARCHITECT SKIDMORE, OWINGS AND MERRILL Architect Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Structural engineer Skidmore, Owings Merrill Client China National Tobacco Corporation...
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Less Than Zero
Magazine article by Lisa Selin Davis; Plenty, August 2008
Subjects: Certification, Green buildings, Greenhouse gases, Home building, Innovations, Sustainable development, United States
...buy back. Its architects, Skidmore, Owings Menili, describe it as "a...premium for its office space (Skidmore, Owings Merrill wont say exactly how much that...Thomas Behr, an associate with Skidmore, Owings Merrill and one of...
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Mipim 2006
Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 219, March 2006
Subjects: Architectural firms--Achievements and awards, Architectural practice--Achievements and awards, Architectural services--Achievements and awards, Awards (Prizes)--Reports
...and air on at least three sides. Commended was Skidmore, Owings Merrill for the Al-Rajhi Bank HQ, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia...category, sponsored by Estates Gazette, was won by Skidmore, Owings Merrill, for the Bridging the Rift Research Facility...
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Recalling the Work of Architect Walter Netsch
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 28, 2008
Subjects: Architects, Architectural firms--Buildings and facilities, Architectural practice--Buildings and facilities, Architectural services--Buildings and facilities, Netsch, Walter, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill L.L.P.--Buildings and facilities
...a great name in architecture in June. Walter Netsch died of pneumonia at age 88. He was a design partner at Skidmore, Owings Merrill from 1947 to 1979. Even early in his career Netsch showed himself to be something of a nonconformist. He designed...
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Ballpark Design Bids Cut to Three
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 3, 2005
Subjects: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill L.L.P.
...originally received eight bids and now will guide the selection among three finalists: HOK Sport, HKS Inc., and Skidmore, Owings Merrill (SOM). The three firms have worked on some of the most beloved and prominent facilities in pro sports and...
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More Companies Enjoy Benefits of Environmentally Sound Buildings
Newspaper article by S.A. Mawhorr; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 2, 2001
...Chicago architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings Merrill. "No one worried. You just...Ellis said. Architects at Skidmore, Owings and Ellis encourage...coordinator for Skidmore, Owings Merrill. "There are different shades...
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Ground Zero Tower Not Free from Fear; Architect Childs Also Works in D.C
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 10, 2005
Subjects: Architects
...rebuilding. David Childs of the New York firm Skidmore, Owings Merrill, who began his career in Washington and still...was Nath-aniel Owings, a founding partner of Skidmore, Owings Merrill, who hired Mr. Childs to join the firms Washington...
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Architect's Gem on Shaky Ground in Lake County
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 17, 2010
Subjects: Architects
...retreat was an early commission for architect Nat Owings, then of Skidmore Owings, predecessor of the firm that would design...follow." The district has been in contact with Skidmore, Owings Merrill LLP regarding the possibility of using the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Skidmore Owings and Merrill  - 5 results

 
 
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Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SKIDMORE, OWINGS AND MERRILL American architectural firm founded in 1936 in New York City by Louis Skidmore (1897 1962), Nathaniel A. Owings (1903 84), and John O. Merrill (1896 1975). The firm helped to...
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Bunshaft, Gordon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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 skyscraper (1952...
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World Trade Center
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...height toward the the "Freedom Tower" (Tower 1), designed by the American architect David M. Childs of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill . Tower 2 is being designed by Englands Lord Norman Foster , Tower 3 by another English architect, Lord Richard...
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Modern Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...complex building needs of a global society. Large architectural firms such as Harrison and Abramovitz and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill did much to popularize modern architecture around the world after World War II. At the same time new technological...
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Sears Tower
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...makes it the worlds third largest freestanding structure at 1,703 ft (519 m). Designed by the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the building is supported structurally by square tubes of welded steel with floors suspended within the tubes...


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