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Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
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Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, American architectural firm founded in 1936 in New York City by Louis Skidmore (1897–1962), Nathaniel A. Owings (1903–84), and John O. Merrill (1896–1975). The firm helped to popularize the International style International style, in architecture, the phase of the modern movement that emerged in Europe and the United States during the 1920s. The term was first used by Philip Johnson in connection with a 1932 architectural exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New
..... Click the link for more information.  during the postwar period. Their best-known early work is Lever House (1952), which was designed by Gordon Bunshaft Bunshaft, Gordon, 1909–90, American architect, b. Buffalo, N.Y. As chief designer for the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill , Bunshaft was responsible for Lever House, New York City's first glass curtain-wall skyscraper (1952), which has been
..... Click the link for more information.  and reflects the influence of Mies Van der Rohe Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig (l
..... Click the link for more information. . Later in the century the firm adopted a postmodern aesthetic, seen in such buildings as the Worldwide Plaza in New York City (1989).

Bibliography

See A. Bush-Brown, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill: Architecture and Urbanism, 1973–1983 (1984).



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For the prior five years, they had been working as structural engineers for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in New York City when that company closed its structural engineering division in the midst of the early '90s recession.
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For the prior five years, they bad been working as structural engineers for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill when that company closed its structural engineering division at its New York office in the midst of the early '90s recession.
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