William Landsberg

William W. Landsberg (February 9, 1915 – October 6, 2013) was a Brooklyn-born modernist architect who designed dozens of homes, synagogues, and commercial buildings in the New York metropolitan area in the 50s and 60s.

[1] Born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, in 1915, William W. Landsberg graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1936 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree.

He then attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design to study Modern architecture from masters Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.

[2] Landsberg married Muriel Ginsberg in 1941 and, serving as an Army architect, was deployed to St. John's, Newfoundland, where he lived for two years, designing and supervising the building of military air bases for WWII Allies.

[3] Landsberg later served with the 1253rd Combat Engineers Battalion of the 9th Army and participated in the crossing of the Rhine in March 1945.

[5] In the early 60s and beyond, Landsberg worked as Project Architect for many large New York firms, including Kahn & Jacobs HOK and Edward Durell Stone.

Featured in international books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and museum exhibits, this house was the most recognized of his independent projects.

Custom-sized large windows, a few of which are floor to ceiling, ornament the facades creating an open feeling in the living and dining room.

[7] The Landsberg house is considered a significant example of Bauhaus style Modern Architecture created in the United States, and as such was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 18, 2014.