Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect

By Meredith L. Clausen

Book Overview

Pietro Belluschi (1899-1994) was the last of a generation of architects that included Marcel Breuer, Jose Luis Sert, and Louis I. Kahn, European immigrants who had a major impact on American architecture. This illustrated study of his life and work brings to light a remarkably accomplished architect, recipient of the AIA Gold Medal and designer (by his own estimate) of well over 1000 buildings and projects. It reveals the enormous power that Belluschi wielded as an arbiter of taste and decision maker in the 1950s and 1960s; his role in shaping the policy of the State Department in its overseas building programme; and his role in securing major commissions for favoured architects such as I.M. Pei.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262032201
• ISBN13: 9780262032209
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 469 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.9" x 10.3"