Pietro Belluschi

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Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 - February 14, 1994) was an architect, a leader of the Modern Architecture movement, and responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings. He was a principal at the Portland, Oregon office of the Chicago architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

His designs include:

• the Bank of America Center in San Francisco,
• the Juilliard School within the Lincoln Center,
• the Equitable Building in Portland, Oregon, a building in the International style which was the first sheathed in aluminum and first with a completely sealed air-conditioned environment,
• the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, California (collaborating with Pier Luigi Nervi),
• the Pan Am Building in New York City (with Walter Gropius),
• the campus of the Portsmouth Abbey School, and
• the Portland Art Museum.

He also served as dean of the M.I.T. School of Architecture. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1972.

[edit] External links

• Oregon Blue Book biography
• 1983 interview from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
• Equitable Building