William Lescaze (1896 – 1969) was born in Switzerland and educated in architecture in Geneva and Zurich under first-generation Modernist Karl Moser. He moved to New York in 1920, where he established his own practice. He is most remembered as one of the pioneers of the International Style in America. During a partnership with David Howe lasting until 1932, they designed the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society – the first Modernist skyscraper in the United States. Lescaze also built Oak Lane Country Day School (1929) which, through the transfer of its headmaster, W.B. Curry, was to get Lescaze his most important commission in the UK – Dartington Hall School’s headmaster’s residence, High Cross House. This property was restored by John Winter in 1995 and is now in the hands of the National Trust. Following his work at Dartington Hall, Lescaze’s career in the United States improved. The 1937 Alfred Loomis House in Tuxedo Park, New York, for example, is regarded as an early experiment in double-skin façade construction.