Pietro Belluschi
Pietro Belluschi (born August 18, 1899 in Ancona , † February 14, 1994 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American architect of Italian origin.
Life
Pietro Belluschi grew up in Italy and fought in the First World War in the Battle of Good Freit and in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto . After the war, Belluschi studied at La Sapienza University in Rome and obtained his degree in civil engineering in 1922. In 1923 he emigrated to the USA , and completed his training as an engineer at Cornell University . He then briefly worked as a mining engineer in Idaho for $ 5 a day; until he worked as a technical draftsman in Albert Ernest Doyle's architectural office in Portland . Belluschi continued to stay in America as his relatives suffered under the government of Benito Mussolini . From 1927 to 1942 he was a senior architect and in 1932 Doyle offered him the partnership. In the 1930s he implemented the philosophy and part of the formal language of Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture in smaller private homes. After the Second World War , he built the first skyscraper with a curtain wall made of glass and aluminum in the USA. This new type of high-rise turned Mies van der Rohe's ideas for glass tower projects from the 1920s into reality and shaped US city centers in the years that followed .
Teaching
- 1951–1965 Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge
- 1965 Consulting Professor of Architecture, University of Oregon , Eugene
- 1966 Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia , Charlottesville
Architecture (selection)
The MetLife Building as seen from the Empire State Building , Spring 2005
The Avery Fisher Hall by Max Abramovitz in Lincoln Center in New York City
The Metropolitan Opera building in Lincoln Center
Awards
- 1952 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1954 Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
- 1955 member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1957 elected member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design
- 1972 Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects
- 1972 AIA Gold Medal
- 1974 Gold Medal of the University of Naples Federico II
- 1991 National Medal of Arts
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Pietro Belluschi. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 15, 2019 .
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "B" / Belluschi, Pietro NA 1957 ( 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 June 17, 2015)
literature
- Meredith L. Clausen: Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect , The MIT Press (1999) ISBN 0-262-53167-4
Web links
- Pietro Belluschi (Eng.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belluschi, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American architect of Italian descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ancona |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1994 |
| Place of death | Portland |