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Also Known As SOM
Date 1936 - present
Headquarters Chicago
Areas Of Involvement Architecture • engineering
Related People Walter Netsch • Louis Skidmore • Nathaniel Owings • Adrian Smith • Fazlur Khan • Gordon Bunshaft

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