Moutoussamy, John W.
1922-1995 · Contribution: 1971
Architect
Designed the Johnson Publishing Company headquarters, the first high-rise in Chicago designed by a Black architect
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Quick facts
- Born
- 1922
- Active since
- 1971
- Category
- Architecture & Design
- Best known for
- Designed Johnson Publishing HQFirst Black-designed Chicago high-riseStudied under Mies van der Rohe
Impact on the world
Moutoussamy put a Black architect's signature on the Chicago skyline and gave the world's largest Black publishing enterprise a modernist home of its own.
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