Description: (Architect)
Recipient of numerous awards and honors, architect Gordon Bunshaft is remembered for ushering in a new era dominated by Modernist skyscraper designs. As a partner and lead designer of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he is credited with designing magnificent buildings like Lever House in New York, Manuscript Library at Yale University, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. etc.