Frank Escher

Escher GuneWardena Architecture

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Co-founder and principal of Escher GuneWardena Architecture, a firm located in Los Angeles, California; co-curator of Between Heaven and Earth: The Architecture of John Lautner, which opened at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2008

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