A Banned Book and two Articles. The Individual and the Collective at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1955–1959)
A 1955 pot-boiler novel, Edwin Gilbert’s Native Stone described Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s New York office and its lead architect Gordon Bunshaft in unflattering terms: domineering, dishonest, a womanizer. SOM threatened a lawsuit to suppress Gilbert’s book and the book was withdrawn. Yet the...
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University of Bologna
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Histories of Postwar Architecture |
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| Online Access: | https://hpa.unibo.it/article/view/20396 |
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