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Belluschi, Pietro (American architect, 1899-1994)
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Note: American architect of Italian origin. Received a degree in civil engineering from the University of Rome, 1922, and contined his studies at Cornell University, New York, where he graduated in 1924. He remained in the United States and was active in Portland, Oregon. He became an associate of the firm A.E. Doyle Associates and remained there until 1942. His first major work was the Portland Art Museum (1929-1932), which was a critical success. He worked in the modernist idiom and favored unpainted wood structures with pitched roofs for his residential commissions, and his own house (1936). Belluschi served as Dean of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1951-1965. From this time he acted as consultant on major projects such as the Pan Am Building (New York, 1962), the Juilliard School (New York, 1970), and Saint Mary's Cathedral (San Francisco, 1973) with Pier Luigi Nervi. American architect; b. in Italy; emigrated to U.S. in 1923, with a practice in Portland, Ore. |
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Larsen, Henning |
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(Danish architect, 1925-2013) [500002097] |
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(American architect, 1899-1994) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American architect, 1899-) ..... [AVERY]
(American architect, 1899-1994) ..... [AVERY]
(American architect, 1899-1994) ..... [Grove Art]
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