Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect by Clausen, Meredith L - 1999

Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1994. Paperback. VG+. Oversize trade paperback, light wear, clean, well bound, unmarked. Ships domestic media mail because of size and weight; no extra shipping fees required.

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999. Paperback. VG- light corner and edge wear to wraps.. White and color-illustrated wraps with gray lettering. 480 pp. BW and some color illustrations. 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 first extensively 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 1,000 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 program; and his role in securing major commissions for favored architects such as I. M. Pei. Equally important is Meredith Clausen's discussion of Belluschi's role in the development of regionalism in… Read More

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