Word: belluschi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Portland the citizens and city council were not convinced. "An oversized, beribboned Christmas package," said Pietro Belluschi, 83, a Portland resident who is one of the country's most respected architects. Belluschi, however, later relented and said he was getting used to it. Other objectors persisted, calling the building "a turkey" and "a giant jukebox." Graves was asked to simplify his design. He considered this a terrible setback and lobbied hard and semisuccessfully to get his garlands back. The Metropolitan Arts Commission held a competition for the Portlandia sculpture, to be paid for through the city's public...
Congregations seldom take their architect's first inspiration as gospel any more. Building committees do much soul searching about their needs. To develop a building program, says Architect Pietro Belluschi, is often in effect "to explore our relationship with God and to search for an understanding of the nature of religion as an institution." Belluschi, dean emeritus of the School of Architecture and Planning at M.I.T., is famous for, among other things, his simple, reverent churches in Oregon...
...cited Pietro Belluschi, consulting architect for the center, and Salvatore Luria, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology and director of the MIT Cancer Research Center, as examples of Italian-Americans making important contributions to Americans society. Ussia says, "Nobody knows about these people, but we certainly know about the others...
...Belluschi says the design of the center combines modern architecture with the culture of Italy. "It's rather simple, with good honest materials and a roof like those in the Italian countryside," Belluschi, who won the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architecture in 1973, says. "Hopefully, after people are through with all these current fashionable things in architecture, they'll come back to this," he adds. Enthusiastic about Italian-Americans establishing a national cultural center, Belluschi says, "It's the natural instinct of a society to become interested in its identity and make the most...