biography
pronunciation:
[beluskee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1994)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Ancona, EC Italy. He studied at the University of Rome and Cornell University. He set up a practice in Portland, OR and in collaboration (particularly in his later work) designed more than 1000 buildings, mostly churches and educational and commercial buildings, in the late International style. He early mastered the sheer ‘curtain wall’ design, as for the Equitable Savings Building (1945–8), in Portland. He was dean of the architecture school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1951–65). |
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