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Belluschi, Pietro (pyĕ`trō bəl

`skē), 1899–1994, Italian-American civil engineer, designer, and architect. Belluschi served as dean and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's school of architecture and planning (1951–65). He designed numerous residential and office buildings, including the Equitable Building in Portland, Oreg. (1948) and the Juilliard School of Music, part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in central Manhattan, New York City, between 62d and 66th streets W of Broadway. Lincoln Center is a complex of many buildings, including the Metropolitan Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, the New York State Theater, the Juilliard
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Belluschi, Pietro (1899– ) architect; born in Ancona, Italy. He studied at the University of Rome and Cornell University. In his Portland, Oregon, practice and in collaboration (particularly in his later work), he designed more than 1,000 buildings, mostly churches, educational and commercial buildings, in the late International style. Belluschi early mastered the sheer "curtain wall" (Equitable Savings Building (1945–48), Portland, Ore.). He was dean of the architecture school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1951–65).