Pietro Belluschi

Architect, born in Ancona, EC Italy. He studied at the University of Rome and Cornell University. He set up a practice in Portland, OR and in collaboration (particularly in his later work) designed more than 1000 buildings, mostly churches and educational and commercial buildings, in the late International style. He early mastered the sheer ‘curtain wall’ design, as for the Equitable Savings Building (1945–8), in Portland. He was dean of the architecture school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1951–65).

Pietro Belluschi (August 18, 1899 - February 14, 1994) was an architect, a leader of the Modern Architecture movement, and responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings.

His designs include:

the Bank of America Center in San Francisco, the Juilliard School within the Lincoln Center, the Equitable Building in Portland, Oregon, a building in the International style which was the first sheathed in aluminum and first with a completely sealed air-conditioned environment, the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, California (collaborating with Pier Luigi Nervi), the Pan Am Building in New York City (with Walter Gropius), the campus of the Portsmouth Abbey School, and the Portland Art Museum.