Born September 1, 1907· Gurahumora, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (now Gura Humorului, Romania)
† Died October 23, 2002
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Born into a Jewish family in Gura Humorului, Romania, he emigrated to Minneapolis in 1912 and pursued architecture, earning a bachelor’s at the University of Minnesota, a summer at the École des Beaux-Arts, and a master’s from MIT before opening his own practice. The Great Depression drove him to Los Angeles, where a draft drawing for RKO secured a permanent art-department position; he later assis…
