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ID: 500045910 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500045910			Record Type: Corporate Body

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (American architectural firm, established 1939)

Note: SOM was one of the first to establish a multi-disciplinary firm. They dominated American corporate architectural practice for over 30 years and created an American image and style called the International Style.

Names:
	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (preferred,V,display,LC)
	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (V,Dutch-P,NA)
	SOM (V A)
	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (V)
	Owings & Merrill (V)
	Skidmore Owings & Merrill (U)
	Architectenbureau Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	architectural firm
	designers
	firm

Gender: not applicable


Start and End Places:
	Start: Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:

	location:		from 1939 Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)
	active:		from 1939 Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)
	location:		San Francisco (San Francisco county, California, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

employee was ....	Allen, Davis 1950-1990
......................	(American architectural designer, 1917-1999) [500043261]

employee was ....	Duckett, Edward Austin [unidentified]
......................	(American architect, draftsman and teacher, born 1920) [500045511]

employee was ....	Goldfinger, Myron
......................	(American architect, 1933-2023) [500099565]

founded by ....	Owings, Nathaniel Alexander 1939-1984
..................	(American architect, 1903-1984) [500021348]

founded by ....	Skidmore, Louis 1939-9999
..................	(American architect, 1897-1962) [500061881]

member was ....	Enquist, Philip
..................	(American urban planner, born 1952) [500285774]

member was ....	Legge, Diane
..................	(American architect) [500115973]

member was ....	Merrill, John Ogden joined in 1939
..................	(American architect, 1896-1975) [500288714]

partner was (firm to person) ....	Bassett, Edward 1965-1990
................................................	(American architect , 1922-1999) [500044491]

partner was (firm to person) ....	Bunshaft, Gordon
................................................	(American architect, 1909-1990) [500031232]

partner was (firm to person) ....	Crawford, James R. from 1979-1988
................................................	(American architect, contemporary) [500121708]

partner was (firm to person) ....	De Blois, Natalie
................................................	(American architect, 1921-2013) [500077888]

partner was (firm to person) ....	Goldsmith, Myron
................................................	(American architect and engineer, 1918-1996) [500018794]

partner was (firm to person) ....	Graham, Bruce
................................................	(American architect, 1925-2010) [500074517]

partner was (firm to person) ....	Khan, Fazlur R.
................................................	(American architect, 1929-1982) [500085464]

partner was (firm to person) ....	Netsch, Walter Andrew
................................................	(American architect, 1920-2008) [500001241]

worker was ....	Noguchi, Isamu
..................	(American sculptor and designer, 1904-1988) [500008602]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Corporate Bodies

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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (I)

Biographies:


	(American architectural firm, established 1939) ..... [VP Preferred] (American firm, contemporary) ..... [AVERY] (American artist, founded 1936) ..... [MoMA] (American firm of architects) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Architectenbureau Skidmore, Owings and Merrill ........	[RKD]
..........................................................................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 371258

Owings & Merrill ........	[AVERY, VP]
................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill ........	[RKD Preferred, VP]
.......................................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
.......................................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 371258

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ........	[AVERY Preferred, VP Preferred]
...................................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
...................................................	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002)
...................................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 50012009, accessed 26 September 2006

Skidmore Owings & Merrill ........	[MoMA Preferred]
.................................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP ........	[VP]
..............................................................	Personal Communication email from SOM, 9 July 2007

SOM ........	[VP]
...........	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........	[AVERY, Gallery Systems, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................	, Source: Architecture California, 1988 Sept.-Oct., v.10, no.5 15
....................	Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n50012009
....................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002)
....................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n50012009
....................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 50012009, accessed 26 September 2006
....................	Personal Communication email from SOM, 9 July 2007
....................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 371258


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, VP]
	..........	, Source: Architecture California, 1988 Sept.-Oct., v.10, no.5 15

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