Belluschi, Pietro

Belluschi, Pietro (1899-1994), Italian-born American architect, whose innovative work established a northwestern regional style. His planned community (1942) at McLaughlin, Washington, included the first modern shopping center, and his Equitable Savings and Loan Association Building (1948) in Portland, Oreg., was the first postwar curtain-wall skyscraper.

(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. He was a principal at the Portland, Oregon office of the Chicago architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

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.

He also served as dean of the M.I.T. School of Architecture. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1972.