George Howe (architect)

George Howe (1886–1955) was an American architect and educator, and an early convert to the International style.

His personal residence, High Hollow (1914-1917), established the standard for house design in the Philadelphia region through the early 20th century[citation needed].

His partnership with William Lescaze yielded the design of Philadelphia's PSFS Building (1930–32), considered the first International style skyscraper built in the United States.

He left in 1928, and in 1929 formed a partnership with William Lescaze, a younger Swiss architect who had studied at ETH Zurich, and had first hand knowledge of the European avant-garde.

Howe was Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome from 1947 to 1949 and Chair of the Architectural Department at Yale from 1950 to 1954.