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Wallace Harrison

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Wallace Kirkman Harrison (Worcester, 28 settembre 1895New York, 2 dicembre 1981) è stato un architetto statunitense.

Harrison iniziò la sua carriera professionale con lo studio Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, partecipando alla costruzione del Rockefeller Center. Ha partecipato a grandi progetti pubblici a New York City anche per merito della sua relazione di amicizia con Nelson Rockefeller per il quale ha lavorato come consulente.[1]

Metropolitan Opera House a New York

Direttore dei lavori alla sede dell'ONU dal 1945 al 1950, diresse con Max Abramovitz un celebre studio di architettura di uffici (Harrison & Abramowitz) dal 1941 al 1976.

Nel 1967 gli venne conferita la Medaglia d'oro AIA.[2]

Progetti principali

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La sede delle Nazioni Unite a New York City
  1. ^ Caroline Rob Zaleski, Long Island Modernism (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2012): Pg. 27
  2. ^ Luebke, Civic Art; Richard Guy Wilson, The AIA Gold Medal (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984).
  3. ^ David W. Dunlap, La Guardia Loses Swiss Cheese Ice Cream Cone, and Some History, in New York Times, 25 novembre 2011. URL consultato il 26 novembre 2011.

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