- George Howe (architect)
George Howe (1886-1955), with
William Lescaze , was a partner in the influential modernist firm of Howe & Lescaze inPhiladelphia , the architects of the landmark PSFS building. The 1929-1932 collaboration between Howe, an American-born Beaux-Arts-trained architect, and Lescaze, a younger Swiss architect who had studied atETH Zurich and had first hand knowledge of the Europeanavant-garde , yielded one of the first International styleskyscrapers built.George Howe was born in
Worcester, Massachusetts in 1886 to James and Helen Howe. He received hisBachelor of Architecture from Harvard in 1908 and graduated from theÉcole des Beaux-Arts in 1912. He worked for the firms of Furness, Evans & Co., and Mellor & Meigs inPhiladelphia before serving in the military from 1917 to 1919, duringWorld War I . After leaving Howe & Lescaze in 1932, Howe designed several private residences in thePhiladelphia area. Throughout the late 1930s, Howe collaborated withLouis Kahn at the Philadelphia Housing Authority; and again in 1940, along withOscar Stonorov , on the design of housing developments in other parts ofPennsylvania .Howe was a Fellow at the
American Academy in Rome from 1947 to 1949 and Chair of the Architectural Department at Yale from 1950 to 1954.Further reading
*http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/25206
References
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*http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Howe_and_Lescaze.html
*http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/25206
*http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21829
*http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21630
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