E. Alfred Picardi Papers
1949-2011 (bulk 1965-1975)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Perkins & Will
Correspondence, photographs, printed matter, personal and project papers documenting the career of the engineer Egidio Alfred Picardi. His achievements as a civil engineer included the design of the solar telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona and tenure as chief engineer at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, where he introduced the shell structure concept in high-rise building design as originally proposed for the John Hancock Center. Picardi left SOM in 1967 for Perkins & Will, where he helped design the Standard Oil of Indiana building in Chicago (now the Aon Center).
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Printed papers, typescript papers, correspondence, presentation portfolio, map, slides; and black and white, toned and color photographic prints.