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Wallace K. Harrison

Born: 1895 | Worcester, Massachusetts
Died: 1981 | New York City, New York
Practice: Harrison & Abramowitz
Awards: AIA Gold Medal (1967)
Projects: United Nations Headquarters, Exxon Building, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, New York (1963 – 1966)

Lincoln Center Metropolitan Opera House by Wallace Harrison © D. Benjamin Miller CC BY-SA 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Rockefeller Center GE Building, New York City, New York (1933)

Rockefeller Center GE Building by Wallace Harrison © David Shankbone CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

United Nations Headquarters, New York City, New York (1949 – 1950)

United Nations by Wallace Kirkman Harrison © Stefan Schulze CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Dartmouth College Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover, New Hampshire (1962)

Dartmouth College Hopkins Center for the Arts by Wallace Kirkman Harrison © Gunnar Klack CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons