(b Evanston, IL, 30 June 1915). American architect. He received his architectural training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (1934–8), with one year at Yale University, New Haven, CT. He then studied at Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI (1938–9), with Eliel Saarinen. In 1940–41 he worked briefly for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and then formed a short-lived partnership with Benjamin Baldwin (b 1913). During World War II he served as a naval engineering officer (1942–6). Following the war he again worked briefly for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1946–7) before reopening his office in Chicago, first as Baldwin and Weese, and after 1947 as Harry Weese and Associates.