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Gordon Bunshaft - Definition and Overview

Gordon Bunshaft (May 9, 1909August 6, 1990) was a 20th century architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked with Edward Durrell Stone and Raymond Loewy, eventually becoming a partner in the New York office of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill.

Bunshaft was a modernist whose early influences included Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.

His best-known design is the Lever House, built as a corporate headquarters for the soap company Lever Brothers.

In the 1950s, Bunshaft was hired by the State Department's Office of Foreign Building Operations as a collaborator on the design for several US consulates in Germany.

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