Early Life
After growing up in the Midwest and graduating Summa Cum Laude from Princeton in 1939, Gores continued his education at Harvard Graduate School of Design. In Landis’s opinion, Harvard had the best architectural department. While at Harvard, Landis became close with fellow student Philip Johnson and professor Marcel Breuer, who would all later become members of the Harvard Five modern architectural group (which included John Johansen and Eliot Noyes).
After graduating in 1942, he served in World War II. Gores took part in a top-secret operation known as Ultra that broke the code of the German high command. By the time he completed active duty he had been awarded both the Legion of Merit and the Order of the British Empire. He continued on in the United States Army Reserve at the rank of Major.
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