American Decades
Deaths
Herbert L. Beckwith, 94, architect, helped design eleven buildings on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he introduced modern architecture and worked as a professor, 3 June 1997.
Pietro Belluschi, 94, modernist architect, designed the glass and aluminum Commonwealth Building in Portland, Oregon (1947), which is considered the first glass curtain-wall structure in the United States; a former dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning; and recipient of the 1972 AIA Gold Medal, 14 February 1994.
Samuel Brody, 66, designer, partner in Davis, Brody, Chermayeff, Geismar, deHarak Associates; one of the leaders of the team that designed the U.S. Pavilion at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan, 28 July 1992.
Gordon Miller Buehrig, 85, legendary automobile designer; helped design the Duesenberg Model J and Auburn Boattail Speedster in the 1920s...
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1990's Fashion
