Nathaniel A. Owings

Nathaniel Alexander Owings was an American architect, a founding partner of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill , which became one of the largest architectural firms in the United States and the world. Owings viewed skyscrapers as his firms specialty. His reputation rested on his ability to be what he called the catalyst, the person in his firm who ironed out differences among clients, contractors and planning commissions.

Owings was born in 1903 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His sister, Eloise, would become the wife of his business partner, Louis Skidmore.

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