Rodney Walker (architect)

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Rodney Walker was a midcentury modern designer and builder who specialized in residential architecture in the Southern California area. He contributed three designs to Arts & Architecture magazine's Case Study House program during the late 1940s (Case Study House #16, #17, and #18).^[1] Many of his homes were photographed by Julius Shulman for Arts & Architecture magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, Architectural Record, Sunset, and the Los Angeles Times Home magazine.

Rodney Walker was born in Ely, Nevada, on September 15, 1910. He attended Pasadena City College before transferring to University of California Los Angeles where he graduated with a degree in art. In 1937, Rodney and his wife Dorothea built their first house in West Los Angeles. Soon after, he went to work for Rudolf Schindler as a draftsman. Over the next thirty years, Rodney designed and built some 100 homes in Southern California. Rodney Walker died in 1986 at his home in Ojai, California.

External links

Profile of Case Study House #16

References

↑ Bettijane Levine (2006-06-15). "REPLICAS OF CASE STUDY HOUSE 16". Retrieved 2007-11-10.

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Name	Walker, Rodney
Alternative names
Short description	American architect
Date of birth	September 15, 1910
Place of birth	Ely, Nevada
Date of death	1986
Place of death	Ojai, California

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