Wallace K. Harrison is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: American architect, 1895-1981. Getty classifies the person under these roles: architects. The nationality terms attached to the record are American. The record carries 4 forms of the name and the identifier 500026345. In this atlas the person is linked as the creator of Headquarters of the United Nations. The Union List of Artist Names is the Getty Research Institute's controlled vocabulary of artist names, built to support cataloguing and to separate people who share a name.
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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Harrison, Wallace K. (American architect, 1895-1981)
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Source Wikipedia: Headquarters of the United Nations
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Harrison, Wallace K. (American architect, 1895-1981)
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Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
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1. Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Harrison, Wallace K. (American architect, 1895-1981)
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Harrison, Wallace K. (American architect, 1895-1981)
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Harrison, Wallace K. (American architect, 1895-1981)
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Biography
He worked for McKim, Mead & White and Bertram Grovesnor Goodhue from 1916 to 1923
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Wallace Kirkman Harrison (September 28, 1895, December 2, 1981) was an American architect. Harrison
In Group: Modernist and Bauhaus Architects and Designers, Article body
In the 1920s, he attended École des Beaux-Arts and, two years later, won the Rotch Taveling Scholarship in 1922. == Career == Harrison's work in the mid-20th century comprised large, modernist public projects and office buildings.
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The complex was designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz, with final projects developed by Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier.
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