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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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Harrison, Wallace K. (American architect, 1895-1981)Record displayQuote, Record display
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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Gender: male
Practices: Architecture, Record heading
Harrison, Wallace K. (American architect, 1895-1981)
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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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