Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Photo © Ezra Stoller | Esto
In 2017 with the oncoming addition to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, it is time for a look at who is arguably Buffalo’s most famous homegrown architect—Gordon Bunshaft…
Out of college and a brief stint in Europe, he worked with another very famous architect who designed in Buffalo, Edward Durell Stone (Buffalo News Building), but ended up at the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) by 1938…
By 1952, Bunshaft rose through the ranks of SOM to become the lead architect on the Lever House. The Lever House…is characterized by its use of glass, steel, and concrete, particularly as the firm was most famous for skyscraper design.