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By the late 1950s, S.O.M. had established itself as the corporate architect.* As Owings recalls his first encounter with Henry Ford: "We were scared as hell. We didn't know what they wanted. So we just said, 'Look, we're going to live with you and love you and learn...
Invisible Partners. "I've produced the people who produce the buildings," says Owings with understandable pride. He is referring to his largely invisible partners, each busy in the five S.O.M. offices and each competing with the others. Among them are four designers who by general consensus rank at the very...
Senior designer and the man responsible for eight of the firm's 13 top A.I.A. awards is Gordon Bunshaft, 59, whom Owings calls "the great classicist." Shock-haired and explosive, a bon vivant and art lover, "Bun" set the firm on the high road to quality with Lever House, most...
S.O.M.'s impressive depth in talent has captured superb commissions. The firm now has $750 million worth of building under construction, including Dallas' Main Place office complex, the home office of the Georgia-Pacific Corp. in Portland, Ore., and the Art and Architecture building at the University of Illinois' Chicago...
The Grand Axis. "My life is architecture," says Owings. For him it means operating with a telephone grafted to his ear and a suitcase ever handy for a dash from California's Big Sur. Often he is on the road for weeks on end, racks up 20,000 air miles...