Walter S. White

Walter S. White (1917–2002) was an American modernist architect and industrial designer who worked in the Coachella Valley, CA in the 1950s and the Colorado Springs, CO area in the 1960s.

White is noted for influencing innovative roofing and window systems in early Palm Desert, CA architecture.

White worked for six months in 1937 for Harwell Hamilton Harris, followed by eight-months with Rudolf Schindler’s Los Angeles office during 1937-1938.

Between 1939 and 1942, he worked for Win E. Wilson for two years and six months, helping to plan and design prefabricated war housing with a skin-stressed plywood panel system.

[2] For the remainder of the war, White was employed by the Douglass Aircraft Co. in El Segundo, California, working on machine tool design for four years and six months (1942-1946).