He was one of the leading modernist architects in South Florida contributing greatly to the development of MiMo Modern style in the post- WWII 40s and 50's.
To finance his education he worked as a soda fountain employee at a Broadway drugstore, taught dancing and competed as an amateur boxer.
On June 8, 1947, Swartburg married Lilian Kalan Dumas, who worked in music publishing in New York City and is credited for discovering the hit song "It's a Sin to Tell A Lie.
[7] He also attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris,[8] Palace of Fontainebleau and at the American Academy in Rome, where he spent a year in Vatican under the Papal supervision of Pope Pius XI.
[9] In 1961 Lawrence Schmitt, president of the Silver Creek Precision Company appointed Swartburg as a head of management team leading expansion of North Orlando.
Shore and Bayside condominium buildings have the appeal of a seaside resort by one of the most celebrated Miami Beach architects with a dramatic entrance of intersecting planes, screen-block boxed windows and angled beanpoles.