Gordon Bunshaft
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
Lever House
New York 1951
Photo: David Shankbone
Beincke Library
Yale University, New Haven, CT 1963
Photo: Henry Trotter
Solow Building
New York 1974
Photo: Ilya Voytov
Hirshhorn Museum
Washington, DC 1974
- 1951: Lever House in New York
- 1953: Manufacturers Hanover Trust Branch Bank in New York
- 1961: Kniecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
- 1962: Albright-Knox Art Gallery (extension) in Buffalo, NY
- 1963: Banque Lambert in Brussels, Belgium
- 1963: Travertine House in the Hamptons , NY
- 1967: Marine Midland Building in New York
- 1971: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin , Texas
- 1973: Solow Building in New York
- 1974: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC
- 1983: National Commercial Bank in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Members: Gordon Bunshaft. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 19, 2019 .
- ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 15, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bunshaft, Gordon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buffalo , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1990 |
| Place of death | New York City |