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100	1		_aAdams, Nicholas.
245	1	0	_aGordon Bunshaft and SOM : _bbuilding corporate modernism _cNicholas Adams. _htxt
264		1	_aNew Haven, CT : _bYale University Press, _c2019.
300			_a288 p. _bill.; col.; plans; photo _c30 cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
501			_aInclude index (280-288p.)
504			_aInlcude bibliography 278p.
520			_a Gordon Bunshaft's (1909-1990) landmark 1952 design for Lever House reshaped the Manhattan skyline and elevated the reputation of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the firm where he would spend more than 40 years as a partner. Although this enigmatic architect left behind few records, his legacy endures in the corporate headquarters, museums, and libraries that were built in his distinctive modernist style. Bunshaft's career was marked by shifts in material. Glass and steel structures of the 1950s, such as New York's Chase Manhattan Bank, gave way to revolutionary designs in concrete, such as the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University and the doughnut-shaped Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Bunshaft's collaborations with artists, including Isamu Noguchi, Jean Dubuffet, and Henry Moore, were of paramount importance throughout his career. Nicholas Adams explores the contested line between Bunshaft's ambition for acclaim as a singular artistic genius and the collaborative structure of SOM's architectural partnership. Bunshaft received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1988 and remains the only SOM partner to have achieved this distinction. Adams counters Bunshaft's maxim that "the building speaks for itself" with necessary critical context about this modernist moment at a time when the future of Bunshaft's iconic works is very much in question.
650		0	_9214399 _aCriticism and interpretation. _xBunshaft, Gordon _y1909-1990
650		0	_991731 _aEmployees _xSkidmore, Owings & Merrill
650		0	_954076 _aArchitects _zNew York
650		0	_9196819 _aArchitecture -- 20th century. _xHistory _zUnited States
650		0	_9297231 _aSkidmore, Owings & Merrill
650		0	_954076 _aArchitects
650		0	_954081 _aArchitecture
650		0	_991731 _aEmployees
651		0	_9142432 _aNew York Region
651		0	_9293958 _aUnited States
942			_2lcc _c6 _hNA680 _kGeneral _mA33 2019