Oral history interview with Pietro Belluschi
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 8 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 14 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hrs., 10 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Belluschi, Pietro, 1899-1994
label: Interviewer
content: Clausen, Meredith L.
label: Names
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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content: Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976
label: Names
content: Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture -- United States
label: Topic
content: Church architecture -- United States
label: Topic
content: Architects -- Oregon -- Portland -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Belluschi, Pietro, 1899-1994
label: Interviewer
content: Clausen, Meredith L.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Pietro Belluschi (1899-1994) was an architect from Portland, Oregon.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 78 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983 August 22-September 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bellus83
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Pietro Belluschi conducted 1983 August 22-September 4, by Meredith Clausen, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Belluschi speaks of his family background, his military service, his education, the beginning of his interest and experience in architecture, his gradual transition into modernism and his experiences as a dean at M.I.T. He discusses his design philosophy and the roles of style versus problem solving, shopping center design, church design, the stylistic differences between architects, and historic preservation. He comments on the influence of Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto on his work and talks about some of his major designs, including the Portland Art Museum, the Equitable Building, the Seattle Convention Center, and others.