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Gordon Bunshaft FAIA (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990) was an American architect, a leading proponent of modern design in the mid-twentieth century. A partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Bunshaft joined the firm in 1937 and remained with it for more than 40 years.
May 9, 2020 · Learn about the life and work of Gordon Bunshaft, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who designed many influential skyscrapers and cultural buildings in the US and Saudi Arabia. See his projects, from the Lever House to the Hajj Terminal, and his style evolution from International Style to curves.
Gordon Bunshaft was an American architect and corecipient (with Oscar Niemeyer) of the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1988. His design of the Lever House skyscraper in New York City (1952) exerted a strong influence in American architecture.
Gordon Bunshaft (1909-1990) has been credited with opening a whole new era of skyscraper design with his first major design project in 1952, the 24-story Lever House in New York. Many consider it the keystone of establishing the International Style as corporate America's standard in architecture, at least through the 1970s.
Gordon Bunshaft (May 9th, 1909 - August 6th, 1990) was an eminent modernist American architecture. For his achievements in architecture he was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1988. Gordon Bunshaft was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gordon Bunshaft was a partner in the New York office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and was an adherent of European modernism as well as one of the leaders of a generation of architects who made buildings of glass, metal, reinforced concrete, and travertine familiar in North America.
Gordon Bunshaft (1909-1990) was a prominent architect who designed many skyscrapers and modernist buildings. He is represented by 13 works in MoMA's collection, including drawings and photographs of his projects.
