Max Flatow

Flatow got his start designing buildings for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos before opening his own firm in Albuquerque in 1947.

Joined by Jason Moore in 1948, the firm became one of New Mexico's largest and was instrumental in popularizing modern architecture throughout the state.

[5] In 1945, he moved to the secret city of Los Alamos, where he served as Architectural Superintendent of Construction for the Manhattan Project, reporting to Robert Oppenheimer.

"[7] One of the firm's first big commissions was the Simms Building, which was Albuquerque's first International style high-rise and helped usher the city into the era of modern architecture.

And in drawing from both the old and the new, the design avoids crippling compromise and rises, instead, to a new and creative plane which is uniquely appropriate to the particular problems at hand."

[4] Ultimately the firm went by the name Flatow, Moore, Shaffer, and McCabe, and then just FMSM Design Group before closing in 2002.