Harrison, Wallace K. (Wallace Kirkman), 1895-1981
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This design was completed c.1940.
Architect; interviewee d. 1981.
Harrison considered numerous schemes for Lincoln Center throughout the 1950s. The final scheme was settled by 1960.
David Milton was Harrison's brother-in-law.
The motif was originally designed for the 14th floor apartment.
At the time of this project Harrison's office was located at One Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y.
Drawing was made by Harrison while at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Wallace K. Harrison, (1895-1981), was an American modernist architect. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, where as a teenager he worked for the contractor O.W. Norcross and the architectural firm Frost & Chamberlain. Beginning in 1916, the architectural firms for which Harrison worked were McKim, Mead & White; Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson; Frank J. Helmle & Harvey Wiley Corbett; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Harrison & Fouilhoux; Harrison, Fouilhoux & Abramovitz; and others. He also did free-lance work for Raymond Hood.
Harrison served in World War I as a Navy ensign aboard a subchaser. After the war, Harrison attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he spent a year in the atelier of Gustave Umbdenstock. He was also a winner of a Rotch Travelling Scholarship in 1922. Harrison had a long-standing personal and professional relationship with Nelson A. Rockefeller which began while he was workig on Rockefeller Center. Rockefeller established the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, where Harrison served as assistant coordinator in 1941 and director in 1945. Harrison won numerous awards, including the New York Architectural League's Gold Medal in 1936 and the American Institute of Architect's Gold Medal in 1967.
This memorial was sponsored by the American Battle Monument Commission.
At the time of this project Harrison's office was located at One Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y.
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