HERITAGE - Famous Swiss in the US - Art - Architecture-
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William Lescaze
 | 1896-1969 Architect. Born in Onex, Canton Geneva, studied architecture at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Moved to the US in 1920, taking up work as a draftsman for a practice in Clevement. In 1929 went into partnership with George Howe. "Howe & Lescaze" constructed the first modern skyscraper, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building in Philadelphia, completed in 1932. This building was the first to apply the principles of International Modernism to both the interior and the exterior. The partnership with Howe was dissolved in 1933. Lescaze later established William Lescaze and Associates, which was active in New York and elsewhere. |
