Background
Willauer was born April 4, 1912 in Rye, New York and attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1930.
Willauer was born April 4, 1912 in Rye, New York and attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1930.
Princeton University.
With William G. Tachau, he was a principal in the architectural firm of Tachau & Vought, the successor firm to Pitcher & Tachau. The firm, located on 102 East 30th Street around 1923, specialized in mental hygiene hospitals. He went on to a career as an associate with the firm of Eggers & Higgins.
Willauer worked as a draftsman in the firm of Louis East. Jallade from 1937 to 1938.
He joined Tachau and Vought in 1938, serving as a junior draftsman and associate, being certified as an architect in 1940, before leaving in 1941 to work for a year as a draftsman in Shreve, Lamb & Harmon. Between 1942 to 1945, he worked as a draftsman in the firm of Gibbs and Cox.
He rejoined Tachau and Vought in 1945 as a junior associate but left in 1946. He joined the large architectural firm of Eggers & Higgins as project manager in 1946.
By 1970, he retained his work address at 100 East. 42nd Street, New York, New York 10017 but did not specify his architectural firm, which had previously been listed Eggers & Higgins at the same address.
He was a member of the American Institute of Architects from 1955, and registered as an architect in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
