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Gordon Bunshaft
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Three New Skyscrapers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
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Architecture of Museums
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Architecture for the State Department
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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Wheaton College Competition
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938
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Gordon Bunshaft was an American architect whose glass and steel corporate towers and civic buildings defined postwar modernist practice in the United States. A partner at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill from 1949 onwards, he designed the Lever House in New York and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., establishing a vocabulary of clean lines, transparent facades, and open public plazas that became emblematic of corporate modernism. His work synthesized European rationalism with American pragmatism, prioritizing spatial clarity and structural honesty over ornament.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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