!!!Schmiderer, Simon

b. Saalfelden (Salzburg), Jan. 27, 1911. Architect. Fled from Austria 
in 1938; from 1944 worked for Time Life publishing house (New York), 
from 1947 for the Library and General Assembly of the UN Headquarters 
in New York. From 1952 realisation of a extensive residential building 
scheme in Puerto Rico, which was based on the concept of serial 
housing ("One house in one hour") and supported by the 
Rockefeller foundation.

!Literature
Visionaere und Vertriebene, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 
1995.


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