About Gordon Bunshaft
Gordon Bunshaft 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. His notable buildings include Lever House in New York, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the National Commercial Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 140 Broadway, and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Branch Bank in New York, the first post-war "transparent" bank on the East Coast. His parents, David and Yetta, were first cousins who had immigrated to the United States a year prior to Gordon's birth. I felt that although I have known you, off and on, for many years, this is the first time we really became closer.'" A man of few words, he famously said he wanted his buildings to speak for themselves.
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