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When a titan of modernist architecture designs a house in a low-key city on the other side of the world from his birthplace, you tune in. And so it goes with Pietro Belluschi, the late Italian-American architect of Pan Am Building fame, who left behind a legacy of local residential architecture in Portland, Oregon—including the 1980s home Anna-Jaël Hotzel of Kollective Design was hired to renovate.
“I was thrilled to be working on a Pietro Belluschi house,” says Hotzel, although “the owners had no idea that their house was special because they just weren’t architecture or design people.” In fact, this was Belluschi’s final residential project in the city before his retirement.
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