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William Frederick Lamb FAIA (November 21 1893 – September 8 1952) was one of the principal designers of the Empire State Building.Lamb joined the New York architecture firm Carrère & Hastings in 1911 shortly after returning from Paris where he earned a diploma at the École des Beaux-Arts. Lamb became a partner in 1920; the firm would be known as Shreve & Lamb from 1924 to 1929 and thereafter as Shreve Lamb and Harmon.