"The Future Is Now in Chicago"
Magazine article
By: Progressive Architecture
Date: 1965
Source: "The Future Is Now in Chicago." Progressive Architecture 46, no. 5, May 1965, 55.
Introduction
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), established in Chicago in 1936, was one the largest architecture firms operating in the United States in the mid-1960s. With offices in New York and Chicago, SOM became a leader in the design of skyscrapers and corporate buildings.
Bruce John Graham was born in 1925 in La Cumbre, Colombia. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture in 1948, Graham worked in a Chicago architecture firm for several years before joining the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. There, as chief of design and, after 1960, general partner, Graham set to work on the design of high-rise structures, which soon became his specialty. Graham...
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