Gordon Bunshaft (1909 – 1990) was an American architect. He studied at Massachusetts Institutre of Technology. He was a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. A proponent of the Modern / International style, his buildings remain icons of their time. This timeline narates his work in a visual manner.
“Gordon Bunshaft is an architect of modest claims and significant deeds. When he states that he prefers that his buildings speak for him, he has chosen eloquent spokesmen. From the landmark Lever House in New York City to his crowning achievement in Saudi Arabia, his forty years of designing masterpieces of modern architecture demonstrate an understanding of contemporary technology and materials that is unsurpassed.” Pritzker Jury Citation 1988
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
1942, Great Lakes, Illinois
Lever House
1951, New York
Manhattan House Apartments
1952, New York
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Brank Bank
1953, New York City
Istanbul Hilton
1955, Istanbul, Turkey
Ford World Headquarters
1956, Dearborn, Michigan
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters
1957, Bloomfield, Connecticut
Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters
1958, Richmond, Virginia
One Chase Manhattan Plaza
1961, New York City
Albright Knox Art Gallery Addition
1962, Buffalo, New York
CIL House
1962, Montreal, Quebec
Beinecke Library Yale University
1962, New Haven, Connecticut
Travertine House
1963, East Hampton, New York
American Republic Insurance Company
1965, Des Moines, Iowa
Banque Lambert
1965, Brussels
Marine Midland Building
1967, New York
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
1971, Austin, Texas
Carlton Centre
1972, Johannesburg, South Africa
Uris Hall Cornell University
1973, Ithaca, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
1974, Washington, DC
Solow Building
1974, 9 West 57th Street, New York
W.R. Grace Building
1974, New York
