Louis Skidmore

American architect

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founding of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

  • Willis Tower
    In Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: Founding and early projects

    In 1936 architects Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings, brothers-in-law who had worked together on the 1933–34 world’s fair, founded an architecture firm in Chicago and in 1937 opened a second office, in New York City. Two years later they were joined by engineer John Merrill. The firm, which…

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