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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: 1972
Born: August 18, 1899;
Ancona, Italy
Died: 1994;
Portland,Oregon
Quote
I still believe that style comes from understanding all the elements of a problem: space, access, view, sun, scale, intimacy, even love.
—Interview by Meredith L. Clausen, http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/bellus83.htm
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• 1980: San Francisco Symphony Hall, with SOM
• 1969: Juilliard School within the Lincoln Center, New York
City
• 1969: Bank of America Center, San Francisco
• 1948: Equitable Savings & Loan Association Building,
Portland, Ore.
• 1938: Sutor House, Portland, Ore.
• 1938: Portland Art Museum
• Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, San
Francisco
• Pan Am Building, New York City (with Walter Gropius)
Biography
Pietro Belluschi was born in Ancona, Italy, in 1899 and lived
there until he was six years old. In the autumn of 1905, his family
moved to Rome, which he called home until he was 24, with the
exception of 1911 to 1913, when his father was transferred to
Bologna by the railroad company for which he worked.
Belluschi left high school at age 17 to fight in WWI with the
Italian army. He wanted to become an officer but needed a diploma,
which he studied at night to earn. He then
attended officer's school in Turin for 45 days. After being
commissioned as an officer, he was sent to the front in
September 1917; he took part in the retreat of Caporetto, where he
was nearly taken prisoner. He served in the army
until 1920.
At that time, Belluschi enrolled in the University of Rome. As the
university at that time had no architecture school, he
earned a degree in civil engineering from the School of Applied
Engineering in 1922.
In 1923 Belluschi spent a few months in Rome, working as inspector
on a housing project. That year, he received a one-year exchange
scholarship to study at Cornell University in New York. He took
civil engineering courses and one course in architecture while
there and obtained a civil engineering degree in 1924.
After graduating from Cornell, he went to Idaho, arriving in the
small town of Kellogg with only two dollars in his pocket. He
worked as a helper electrician in a mining company, staying there
nine months while he earned about $600. At that point, he asked his
boss if he would ask a local architect to write letters of
introduction to architects on the west coast. The architect gave
him a number of letters, including one to A.E. Doyle in Portland,
Ore. He was told Doyle was most likely to have some work, so
without writing ahead, he took the train to Portland and arrived
there in April.
He joined the architecture firm of A.E. Doyle and worked tracing
drawings. Doyle was impressed with his work, rewarding him with
frequent raises. In 1925, Belluschi was assigned to the design
department and quickly gained skills by observing and learning as
much as possible. In 1927, the department head had to leave town
very quickly after a personal scandal, so Belluschi became the new
head of the design department in his place. He served as chief
designer with A.E. Doyle for several years before becoming a
partner in 1933.
During the early 1930s, when the Depression was at its worst, A.E.
Doyle had little work, so in 1932 Belluschi returned to Italy to
stay with his family. In 1934, when the market picked up a little,
he returned to Oregon. In the mid-1930s he began to design houses.
In 1943, Belluschi began to design under his own name. While
working in Portland, Belluschi’s commercial work reflected the
developing International style, while his housing and religious
buildings reflected regional traditions and used local materials.
He was a prominent contributor to the style known as Pacific
Northwest Regionalism.
From 1951 to 1965, Belluschi served as dean of the M.I.T. School of
Architecture and Planning. In 1958, he helped to establish a PhD
degree in planning and in 1959 he cofounded with Harvard University
the Joint Center for Urban Studies.
In 1954, Belluschi was made a Fellow of the Academy of Arts in
Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1965, he became a consulting professor of
architecture at the University of Oregon, Eugene, and in 1966 he
was made the Thomas Jefferson professor of architecture at the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Since 1965, he had an
office in Boston.
In 50 years of practice, Belluschi designed more 1,000 buildings.
Although his commercial designs owe much to the International
Style, his domestic and religious work show a preference for
regional traditions and native materials. Belluschi’s strove
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