Wallace Harrison

Wallace Harrison
Born
Wallace Kirkman Harrison

(1895-09-28)September 28, 1895
DiedDecember 2, 1981(1981-12-02) (aged 86)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materÉcole des Beaux-Arts
OccupationArchitect
AwardsAIA Gold Medal (1967)
PracticeHarrison & Abramowitz
BuildingsUnited Nations headquarters
Exxon Building
ProjectsRockefeller Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
DesignTrylon and Perisphere

Wallace Kirkman Harrison (September 28, 1895 – December 2, 1981) was an American architect. Harrison started his professional career with the firm of Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, participating in the construction of Rockefeller Center. He is best known for executing large public projects in New York City and upstate, many of them a result of his long and fruitful personal relationship with Nelson Rockefeller, for whom he served as an adviser.[1]

The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, seen from Lincoln Center Plaza
  1. ^ Caroline Rob Zaleski, Long Island Modernism (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2012): Pg. 27