Gordon Bunshaft

Gordon Bunshaft ( May 9, 1909 in Buffalo, New York; † August 6, 1990 in New York City ) was an American architect of modernity and Pritzker Prize winner (1988).

Life

Bunshaft studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He then worked with the architect Edward Durrell Stone, the designer Raymond Loewy and was finally from 1946 employee and later partner in the New York office of the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

Early works Bunshafts were heavily influenced by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. By far the most well-known project of Bunshaft 's Lever House, a high-rise that houses the offices of the hygiene products manufacturer Lever Brothers. The project for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank Branch 1953 is considered the first transparent bank building on the east coast of the USA. The only single-family house, which was created by Bunshaft, the 210 m² large Travertine House, which until 2005 was owned by Martha Stewart in 1995.

In the 50 years was Bunshaft, on behalf of the U.S. Agency for Foreign Investment, involved in the designs for consular offices in Germany.

Significant works

Retrospective

Beinecke Library Yale University, New Haven, CT 1963 Photo: Henry Trotter

Solow Building New York 1974 Photo: Ilya Voytov

Hirshhorn Museum Washington, D.C. 1974