Born in 1910, Noyes trained as an architect at Harvard, where his teachers included Bauhaus masters Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.

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The designs draw upon the work and aesthetic principles of the famed architect who was a contemporary of Mies Van der Rohe and Walter Gropius.

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