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Gordon Bunshaft

1909 - 1990

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Gordon Bunshaft (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990) was an American architect, a leading proponent of modern design in the mid-twentieth century. A partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Bunshaft joined the firm in 1937 and remained with it for more than 40 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gordon Bunshaft has received more than 212,357 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Gordon Bunshaft is the 259th most popular architect (up from 260th in 2019), the 3,338th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,268th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Gordon Bunshaft ranks 259 out of 424Before him are Bernardo Buontalenti, Friedrich August Stüler, Vittorio Gregotti, Domenico Trezzini, Günter Behnisch, and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine. After him are Carlo Rossi, Ferdinand Fellner, François de Cuvilliés, Josef Frank, Paul Wallot, and Władysław Horodecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Gordon Bunshaft ranks 130Before him are Ben Webster, Olga Rubtsova, Barry Goldwater, Max Baer, Héctor José Cámpora, and Miklós Radnóti. After him are Juan José Nogués, Anthony Mamo, Seichō Matsumoto, Luigi Villoresi, Dana Andrews, and Jerzy Andrzejewski. Among people deceased in 1990, Gordon Bunshaft ranks 102Before him are Naoto Tajima, Martin Ritt, Del Shannon, Irene Dunne, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, and Carlos Peucelle. After him are Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Aldo Fabrizi, Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Mariano Rumor, Edmund Conen, and Michael Powell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gordon Bunshaft ranks 3,338 out of 18,182Before him are Pat Riley (1945), La Toya Jackson (1956), Robert Monroe (1915), Al Green (1946), Virginia Hall (1906), and Carmen Argenziano (1943). After him are Moses Malone (1955), Julia Robinson (1919), Brian Weiss (1944), Harold Robbins (1916), McCoy Tyner (1938), and Margaux Hemingway (1954).

Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Gordon Bunshaft ranks 16Before him are Kevin A. Lynch (1918), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Adrian Smith (1944), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Frederick Law Olmsted (1822), and Cedric Gibbons (1893). After him are Michael Graves (1934), Charles Jencks (1939), Thom Mayne (1944), Steven Holl (1947), Sixto Durán Ballén (1921), and Daniel Burnham (1846).