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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 1967
Born: September 28, 1895;
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 1981;
New York City
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• 1978: Empire State Plaza: The Egg Performance Theater,
Albany, N.Y.
• 1973: Empire State Plaza: Agency Towers & Erastus
Corning Tower, Albany, N.Y.
• 1965: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City
• 1964: New York Hall of Science, 1964 New York World's
Fair
• 1962: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York
City
• 1960: Time-Life Building, New York City
• 1956: Socony Mobil Building, New York City
• 1953: Alcoa Building, Pittsburgh, Pa.
• 1952: United Nations Headquarters Complex, New York
City
• 1940: Rockefeller Center, New York City
• 1939: Perisphere and Trylon, New York World's Fair
Biography
Wallace Harrison studied architecture first at Columbia
University with Harvey Corbett for a year and then spent a couple
of years in Europe on a traveling scholarship. He studied at the
Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the atelier of Gustave
Umbdenstock. He returned to New York and worked for Bertram Goodhue
briefly, then joined Helmle and Corbett, becoming a partner in
1927. The firm later became Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray and
collaborated with three other firms to design and construct the
Rockefeller Center.
Joining with André Fouilhoux and Max Abramovitz, Harrison
was senior partner in Harrison, Fouilhoux, & Abramovitz (later
Harrison & Abramovitz) from 1941 until 1976.
For the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, Harrison and Fouilhoux
designed the Trylon and Perisphere, representing the fair’s
World of Tomorrow theme. The Trylon was a triangular tower
measuring 610 feet high and the Perisphere was a globe measuring
180 feet in diameter. These buildings became the symbols of that
year’s World Fair.
An architect and urban planner recognized for his strong
organizational skills, Harrison designed and coordinated
large-scale corporate complexes that reflected his straightforward
approach to planning and functional design. He also designed
creative residences, expressing more of an artistic flair in this
venue.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Harrison coordinated the
collaborative effort to design and build the United Nations
Headquarters building in New York City. This international
collaboration included such architects as Sven Markelius, Le
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