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Wallace K. Harrison

Architects and Designers

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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Wallace K. Harrison
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Headquarters of the United Nations

Wallace K. Harrison
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Practices

Architecture, Art Forms
Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Harrison, Wallace K. (American architect, 1895-1981)

Works Created

Headquarters of the United Nations, Works
Source Wikipedia: Headquarters of the United Nations
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Nationality

United States

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

Originated In

Massachusetts

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Source Wallace Harrison (Wikipedia)Infobox: birth_place
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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)
Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names
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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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Wikipedia: Headquarters of the United Nations
Works Created: Headquarters of the United Nations, Wikipedia intro
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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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