biography
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| (1909–90)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Buffalo, New York, USA. He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and joined Skidmore and Owings in 1937. His public and corporate buildings are characterized by inventive design, and especially influential were his skyscraper towers set back in plazas, notably Lever House, New York City (1952). Other projects include suburban offices in landscaped parks such as Connecticut General Life Insurance Building Bloomfield, CT (1957), and sloping facades as in the 9 West 57th Street Building, New York (1974). He shared the Pritzker Architecture Prize with Oscar Niemeyer in 1988. |
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