Gordon Bunshaft

Bunshaft was born in Buffalo, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents,[2] and attended Lafayette High School. He received both his undergraduate (1933) and his master's (1935) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studied in Europe on a Rotch Traveling Scholarship from 1935 to 1937.

After his traveling scholarship, Bunshaft worked briefly for Edward Durell Stone and industrial designer Raymond Loewy before joining SOM. Bunshaft's early influences included Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.[3]

In the 1950s, Bunshaft was hired by the State Department's Office of Foreign Building Operations as a collaborator on the design for several U.S. consulates in Germany.[4][5]

Bunshaft's only single-family residence was the 2300 square foot (210 m²) Travertine House, built for his own family. On his death he left the house to MoMA, which sold it to Martha Stewart in 1995.[6] Her extensive remodelling stalled amid an acrimonious planning dispute with a neighbour. In 2005, she sold the house to textile magnate Donald Maharam, who described the house as "decrepit and largely beyond repair" and demolished it.[7][8][9]

Exterior of the Hirshhorn Museum, facing Independence Avenue

The LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas

• 1942 – Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Hostess House – Great Lakes, Illinois
• 1951 – Lever House – New York, New York
• 1952 – Manhattan House – New York, New York
• 1953 – Manufacturers Trust Company Building – New York, New York[12]
• 1956 – Ford World Headquarters – Dearborn, Michigan, with Natalie de Blois
• 1956 – Consular Agency of the United States, Bremen – Bremen, Germany[13]
• 1957 – Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters – Bloomfield, Connecticut[14]
• 1955 – Istanbul Hilton – Istanbul, Turkey
• 1958 – Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters – Richmond, Virginia[15]
• 1961 – 28 Liberty Street – New York, New York
• 1962 – CIL House – Montreal, Quebec
• 1962 – Albright-Knox Art Gallery addition – Buffalo, New York
• 1963 – Travertine House – East Hampton, New York
• 1963 – Beinecke Library – Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• 1965 – American Republic Insurance Company Headquarters – Des Moines, Iowa
• 1965 – Banque Lambert – Brussels, Belgium
• 1965 – New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (interiors) – New York, New York
• 1965 – Hayes Park Central & South Buildings – Hayes, United Kingdom [16]
• 1965 – Warren P. McGuirk Alumni Stadium – University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
• 1967 – 140 Broadway – New York City
• 1971 – Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum – Austin, Texas
• 1972 – Carlton Centre – Johannesburg, South Africa
• 1973 – New York City Convention and Exhibition Center (not built) – New York, New York[17]
• 1973 – Uris Hall, Cornell University – Ithaca, New York
• 1974 – Solow Building – 9 West 57th Street, New York, New York
• 1974 – W. R. Grace Building – New York, New York
• 1974 – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden – Washington, D.C.
• 1983 – National Commercial Bank – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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  Manufacturers Trust Building
  New York, New York 1954
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  United States Consular Agency
  Bremen, Germany 1956
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  Ford World Headquarters
  Dearborn, Michigan 1956
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  Connecticut General Life Insurance Headquarters
  Bloomfield, CT 1957
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  Beinecke Library
  Yale University, New Haven, CT 1963
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  Beinecke Library Interior
  Yale University, New Haven, CT 1963
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  Johnson Presidential Library
  Austin, Texas, 1971
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  Solow Building
  New York, 1974
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  Hirshhorn Museum
  Washington, D.C. 1974

In 1943, Bunshaft married Nina Wayler (d. 1994). They were avid collectors of contemporary art and owned many major pieces including works by Joan Miró, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Léger and Noguchi.[1] They lived in the Manhattan House Apartments in New York's Upper East Side, which he helped design, and at the Travertine House in East Hampton, which was his only single-family residence.[6]

He is buried next to his wife and parents in the Temple Beth El cemetery on Pine Ridge Road in Buffalo, New York.

• Carol Herselle Krinsky, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, MIT Press, 1988

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gordon Bunshaft.

• "Oral history interview with Gordon Bunshaft". Chicago Architects Oral History Project, The Art Institute of Chicago. Archived from the original on May 16, 2006. Retrieved October 13, 2005.
• "Wrecking Ball". MetaFilter. Retrieved October 12, 2005. Discussion and links about preservation and rebuilding of the Bunshaft Residence, aka "Travertine House.".
• "Gordon Bunshaft 1988 Laureate". The Pritzker Architecture Prize. Archived from the original on December 10, 2008. Retrieved October 12, 2005.
• Gordon Bunshaft architectural drawings and papers, 1909-1990 (bulk 1950-1979). Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
• Gordon Bunshaft at Find a Grave