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Belluschi, Pietro

(August 18, 1899 - February 14, 1994) , Italian-born American architect, whose innovative work established a northwestern regional style. His planned community (1942) at McLaughlin, Washington, included the first modern shopping center, and his Equitable Savings and Loan Association Building (1948) in Portland, Oreg., was the first postwar curtain-wall skyscraper.

was an architect, a leader of the Modern Architecture movement, and responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings. He was a principal at the Portland, Oregon office of the Chicago architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

His designs include:

He also served as dean of the M.I.T. School of Architecture. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1972.


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