(b Chicago, IL, 19 Dec 1892; d Chicago, 17 Dec 1967). American architect. He was apprenticed to Frank Lloyd Wright from 1902 to 1909, then spent a year in Seattle, WA. During a brief period in 1913 in California, he met the sculptor Alfonso Ianelli (1888-1965), who later provided ornament for several of Byrne's buildings. Byrne took over Walter Burley Griffin's American practice from 1913 to 1922, after the latter's departure to Australia. Later he founded his own building company (1922-9) and a small practice in Wilmette, IL (1930-32). From 1932 until his return to Chicago in 1945 he had an office in New York, where in addition to practising architecture he published articles and reviews on architectural aesthetics and church design.

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