Werner Seligmann

His father, Fritz, was born December 31, 1902, in Krefeld, Germany, survived a labor camp in Bielefeld and deportation to KZ Theresienstadt, Terezín in Czechoslovakia.

[2] After the camp guards abandoned their posts, he was picked up by American troops and ultimately reunited with his father.

Wentorf was a camp for Displaced Persons (DPs) and occupied buildings that had been barracks for the German Army (Wehrmacht).

[1] He went to live with relatives in Groton, in upstate New York, a short distance from Cornell University in Ithaca.

The Texas Rangers group included historian Colin Rowe, John Shaw, painter Robert Slutzky, John Hejduk, Lee Hirsche, Bernhard Hoesli, Lee Hodgen, and W. Irving Phillips.Caragonne, Alexander (1994).

After the "Texas Rangers" were dismissed, Seligmann pursued graduate study at the Technische Hochschule in Braunschweig, Germany, from 1958 to 1959.

In addition to serving as a visiting critic, Seligmann wrote and lectured extensively on the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and other architects and issues.

His firm, Werner Seligmann and Associates, Architects and Urban Designers was based in Cortland, New York.

The Ithaca Scattered Site Housing Project (now known as Elm Street and Maple Avenue) has been widely exhibited and published.

The project's design was included in the permanent collection of the (Museum of Modern Art MOMA) in New York City.

[3] Seligmann also published numerous articles on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and modern architecture in general.