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Lescaze, William Edmond
(b Geneva, 27 March 1896; d New York, 9 Feb 1969). American architect of Swiss birth. He studied architecture under Karl Moser at the Technische Hochschule in Zurich (MA, 1919) and worked in the Paris office of Henri Sauvage (1919–20). He emigrated to the USA in 1920 and after a brief stay in Cleveland, OH, set up his own practice in New York in 1923. Although his early commissions were small, he gained recognition for some unexecuted projects, such as ‘The Future Country House’, which was illustrated in the Architectural Record (November 1928). It was efficient, well-planned and insulated, with an adjacent aeroplane garage and runway.
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