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GORDON BUNSHAFT FAIA (1909-1990) Bunshaft was born in Buffalo NY to Russian Jewish immigrant parents,and attended Lafayette High School. He received both his undergraduate (1933) and his master's (1935) degrees from MIT and studied in Europe on a Rotch Traveling Scholarship 1935-1937. After his traveling scholarship, Bunshaft worked briefly for Edward Durell Stone and industrial designer Raymond Loewy.
He
joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in 1937 and
remained for more than 40 years, rising to partner. The long
list of his notable buildings includes Lever House in New
York, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale
University, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in
Washington DC, the LBJ
Presidential Library in Austin TX, and the 1956 Ford World
Headquarters in Dearborn MI (with Natalie de
Blois).
1950 - The Manhattan House Apartment Building, 200 E 66th Street, Manhattan NY. John Johansen was one of the project architects. Sold to developers in 2005, renovation completed in early 2010's.
1963 - The Gordon and Nina Wayler Bunshaft House, aka Travertine House, 84 Georgica Close Road, East Hampton NY. Structural engineer, Paul Weidlinger; mechanical engineers Syska & Hennessy; built by Clarke Smith; SOM did the landscape design. 2300sf. Featured as an Architectural Record House of 1966 and an Architectural Record Vacation House of 1970. He left the house to the Museum of Modern Art which sold it in 1995 to Martha Stewart. Her extensive remodel designed by John Pawson began, was gutted, then stalled and abandoned for years amid a neighbor dispute. In 2004, she transferred the property to her daughter, Alexis. Sold to Donald and Bonnie Maharam, who described the house as "decrepit and largely beyond repair" and destroyed it in 2004. However, when the house was destroyed, the extensive travertine was missing. Rumor has it that Stewart or her daughter removed it, but that has never been confirmed. |