Halle, Roger, 1919-1993.

Roger Halle was born in 1919. He studied architecture at Princeton University and worked under several architects including Edward Durrell Stone and Wallace K. Harrison during the late 1940's. While with Harrison and Abramovitz, he helped produce the design for the United Nations Secretariat building. Halle later started his own firm as a research architect in New York City and Caracas, Venezuela, focusing his career on reducing the cost of construction by implementing prefabricated modules and building systems. He held 12 patents in the United States and abroad related to the method of building, which constituted what was introduced in 1964 as the Halle Building System.

In May 1972, Halle incorporated Halle Building System Company Inc., with the primary purpose to provide consulting or design services related to the construction of buildings and their components, in particular to system or industrialized building.

The architect gave talks and lectures on reducing building and housing costs, participated in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) held conferences, and was a member on the Technology Division of National Institute of Building Science (NIBS) where he prepared and proposed research plans for the Housing Technology Research Agenda. Halle also published many articles in several publication including Architecture & Engineering News, Progressive Architecture, and The New York Times, and was closely involved in the preservation of the Halle Ravine and other nature preserves in Pound Ridge, N.Y. as well as a founding trustee of the Lower Hudson chapter of the Nature Conservancy.

Halle died in 1993 at the age of 74.

From the guide to the Roger Halle papers and architectural drawings, 1943-1992, (Columbia University. Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Dept. of Drawings & Archives, )