Gordon Bunshaft

Gordon Bunshaft was born the May 9th 1909 and died the August 6th 1990. Celebrate American Architecte 20th century inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, it began its career in 1937 with Louis Skidmore with New York.

Its career is stopped in 1939 with the war. It begins again in 1946 in the company " Skidmore, Owings and Merill" , known today under the initial ones of SOM.

It builds in 1952 the “Rising House”, a Gratte-ciel of 21 stage with New York. It is the first Gratte-ciel of Manhattan which is primarily made up of glass, whereas these neighbors are composed of stone. For this realization, it received the price Prix Pritzker in 1988.

Achievements

in 1952, the “Rising House” with New York (Price Pritzker 1988)
in 1963, the “Beinecke Library” of Yale to New Haven
in 1965, the “Banks Lambert” with Brussels
in 1971, “Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library” with Austin, the Texas
in 1974, the “Hirshhorn Museum”, a circular building and museum of Washington
in 1983, it “ Commercial national Bank” with Djeddah in Saudi Arabia (turn of 27 stages and 122 meters in height)

It also contributed to the development of the American consulate in Germany.

External bond

Detail of the design of the Commercial National Bank de Djeddah: http://adr.campus.ecp.fr/~mtb/mtbtour68.html

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