Tape-recorded interview with Pietro Belluschi : in Portland, Oregon, August 22 & 23, September 4, 1983 / Meredith L. Clausen, interviewer.

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Tape-recorded interview with Pietro Belluschi : in Portland, Oregon, August 22 & 23, September 4, 1983 / Meredith L. Clausen, interviewer.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22143044

Belluschi discusses his upbringing and education in Italy, later studies at Cornell University, move to Portland, Oregon in 1925, association with and eventual acquisition of A.E. Doyle's firm, major commissions in Portland (including the Portland Art Museum and the Equitable Building), architectural influences, transition to modernism, design philosophy, tenure as Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT (1950-1965), involvement in the controversy surrounding Michael Graves's Portland Building, and views on Post-Modernism.

v, 109 leaves.

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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