Word: belluschi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbot, in cooperation with Pietro Belluschi, Dean of the M.I.T. School of Architecture and Planning, will present preliminary plans for the 3800-seat opera house next fall. A construction date will be set after that...
Henry R. Shepley, in conjunction with Belluschi, helped plan New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which contains the new Metropolitan Opera House and the New York Philharmonic concert hall...
...York Philharmonic's famed Carnegie Hall. To house a permanent dance repertory group, Architect Philip Johnson (TIME, July 2, 1956) will design a structure that will have "walls papered with people," i.e., a system of balconies giving clear sight lines to the stage. M.I.T. Architecture Dean Pietro Belluschi will build a new Juilliard School. For a park to the southwest, the Guggenheim Foundation will donate a $500,000 bandstand for summer concerts. Still to be assigned from a pool of such top architects as Eero Saarinen and Edward D. Stone are commissions for a repertory theater and a museum...
With less emotion and more judgment, top architects, including Eero Saarinen and M.I.T.'s Pietro Belluschi, enthusiastically praised the originality and appropriateness of the chapel. The House, by a vote of 102 to 53, took a stand against the architects. Next day the House reversed itself and approved the building, 147 to 83. This week the Senate will begin to make its esthetic judgment of the chapel, with strong emphasis on the beauty of $3,000,000 in economy-minded...
...prizes given to U.S. architects for buildings of the year are the annual awards of the 11,000-member American Institute of Architects. To pick this year's winners, a jury of five topflight architects, including Eero Saarinen (TIME, March 19) and Pietro Belluschi, dean of M.I.T.'s School of Architecture, thumbed through more than 200 sets of plans and photographs before they made their choice. The runaway winners, announced in Washington this week: the San Francisco firm of Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, which not only got a First Honor Award for its $258,000 "Thinkers' Shangri...