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Gordon Bunshaft

1909 - 1990

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Gordon Bunshaft (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. His notable buildings include Lever House in New York, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the National Commercial Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 140 Broadway (Marine Midland Grace Trust Co.), and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Branch Bank in New York, the first post-war "transparent" bank on the East Coast. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gordon Bunshaft is the 246th most popular architect (up from 325th in 2019), the 3,580th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,432nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Gordon Bunshaft ranks 246 out of 518. Before him are Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Konstantin Melnikov, Henri Labrouste, Joseph Paxton, Baysunghur, and Max Fabiani. After him are Lambert Lombard, Archibald Leitch, Giacomo Quarenghi, Giovanni Giocondo, Kevin A. Lynch, and Glenn Murcutt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Gordon Bunshaft ranks 126. Before him are Indro Montanelli, Carl Gustaf von Rosen, Anthony Mamo, Ryszard Siwiec, Atsushi Nakajima, and Barry Goldwater. After him are Gerhard Gentzen, Morris Swadesh, André Cayatte, Dean Rusk, Milena Pavlović-Barili, and Marie-Thérèse Walter. Among people deceased in 1990, Gordon Bunshaft ranks 100. Before him are Peter Wessel Zapffe, Wolfgang Schmieder, Paul Ariste, Stefano Casiraghi, Carlos Peucelle, and Hussein Onn. After him are Semyon Kurkotkin, Alan Perlis, Grethe Ingmann, Mariano Rumor, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, and Juan José Arévalo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gordon Bunshaft ranks 3,580 out of 20,380. Before him are Gardner Fox (1911), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), Jason Newsted (1963), Sal Mineo (1939), Bob Casey Jr. (1960), and John Frusciante (1970). After him are John Grinder (1940), Richard C. Tolman (1881), David Lee Roth (1954), Frank Morgan (1890), Caesar Augustus Rodney (1772), and Alvin Hansen (1887).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Gordon Bunshaft ranks 14. Before him are Peter Eisenman (1932), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Charles Eames (1907), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Adrian Smith (1944), and Sixto Durán Ballén (1921). After him are Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Cedric Gibbons (1893), Steven Holl (1947), Thom Mayne (1944), Michael Graves (1934), and Frederick Law Olmsted (1822).

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