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ABOUT
Portland-based leader of architecture's Modern Movement; he designed over 1,000 buildings. Served as Dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's architecture and planning school from 1951 until 1965.He served as a presidential appointee on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1950 until 1955.He and Louis Sullivan both pioneered Modernist design.
BEFORE FAMEHe fought for Italy in World War I, fighting in the battles of Caporetto and Vittorio Veneto against the Austrians. He then attended the University of Rome from which he graduated in 1922 with a degree in civil engineering.
PERSONAL LIFEHe fathered two children with his first wife, Helen Hemmila. She died in 1962, and he remarried in 1965 to Marjorie.
FUN FACTSArchitect Pietro Belluschi were born on Friday, birthstone is Peridot, the seaon was Summer in the Chinese year of , it is 228 days until Pietro Belluschi next birthday.
