Gordon Bunshaft

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The Lever House in New York (1951)

Gordon Bunshaft (born May 9, 1909 in Buffalo , New York , † August 6, 1990 in New York City ) was an American modernist architect and Pritzker Prize winner (1988).

Life

Bunshaft studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He then worked for the architect Edward Durrell Stone , the designer Raymond Loewy, and finally from 1946 was an employee and later a partner in the New York branch of the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill .

Early works by Bunshaft were strongly influenced by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier . By far the best-known Bunshaft project is the Lever House , a high-rise building that houses the offices of the hygiene product manufacturer Lever Brothers . The 1953 project for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Branch Bank is considered the first transparent bank building on the east coast of the USA. The only single-family home that Bunshaft has created is the 210 m² Travertine House , which was owned by Martha Stewart from 1995 to 2005 .

In the 1950s, Bunshaft was involved in drafting consular missions in Germany on behalf of the American Office for Foreign Investment. In 1959 he was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design ; 1960 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and 1969 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Significant works

Web links

Commons : Gordon Bunshaft  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "B" / Bunshaft, Gordon NA 1959 ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 16, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  2. ^ Members: Gordon Bunshaft. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 15, 2016