Hugh Ferriss (1889 – 1962) was an American delineator (one who creates drawings and sketches of buildings) and architect. After his death a colleague said he 'influenced my generation of architects' more than any other man. Ferriss also influenced popular culture, for example Gotham City (the setting for Batman) and Kerry Conran's "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow".
Ferriss lived through both World Wars
Ferris lived from 1889 to 1962, this means he lived through World War One of the 1910s and World War Two of the 1930s and 1940s