His co-authored The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design "became the standard textbook in the field".

[2] He won a Steedman Fellowship to travel in Europe in 1927–1928,[2] during which time he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.

[1] He served on the Los Angeles City Regional Planning Unit shortly after World War II.

[1] In 1951, he co-authored a book on urban design with Simon Eisner; it "became the standard textbook in the field".

[3] With fellow architects Frederick Earl Emmons, Douglas Honnold, A. Quincy Jones, Maynard Lyndon, John Leon Rex and Raphael Soriano, he designed the San Pedro Community Hospital at 1300 West 7th Street in San Pedro, Los Angeles in 1958-1960.