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1925–2010 · United States

Bruce Graham

An SOM skyscraper architect known for the bundled-tube Willis, formerly Sears, Tower.

Style: Skyscraper

He collaborated with structural engineers including Fazlur Rahman Khan.

He continued Chicago’s tall-building tradition in the postwar era.

His corporate headquarters reinforced the model of the tower as a city symbol.

He was a practice-oriented master of curtain walls, cores, and tube structures.

Born in Latin America, he built his career in the United States.

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