Roger Faulds White was born in Oakland, California. He did his undergarduate work in Environmental Studies, with an emphasis in urban geography, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His did his Graduate Studies in Architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI-Arc, and his Master's Thesis at the Sci-Arc campus in Vico Morcote, Ticino, Switzerland.
In the early 80's he worked in Bern, Switzerland with Daniel Herren, AIA, SIA, at Helfer Architekten, A.G., and, later, with the UNI-Tobler Group where he coordinated the preliminary studies for the adaptive re-use of the old Tobler Chocolate Factory for the Bernese Pedagological School and the University of Bern. He attended the opening of the building in the spring of 1993. He has traveled and made study trips all over Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as to India, Australia, El Savador, and more recently to Mexico and the United Arab Emirates.
After returning to Los Angeles in 1985, he worked with Michael Rachlin, AIA, before forming his own firm concentrating on residential and commercial work. He has taught at SCI-Arc, Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design, and lectured at the University of Southern California, California State University, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and the Universitaet fuer Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, Austria. He has also been on architecture reviews at California State Polytechical University at Pomona, Woodbury University, in Burbank, California and at Washington University, in Saint Louis, Missouri. He has collaborated with artists Daniel Joseph Martinez and Renee Petropoulos on large scale urban artworks, their piece "Your Move" was dedicated in July, 1996 at the Municipal Services Building's Thomas Paine Plaza in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He has built projects all over Los Angeles: Venice, Hermosa Beach, Pacific Palisades, Coldwater Canyon, Benedict Canyon, Mar Vista, West Adams, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and La Crescenta as well as Sullivan County, in Upstate New York, Three Rivers, in Tulare County, CA and in Big Timber, Montana. Recent projects are Counter Organic Bar and Vegetarian Bistro in the East Village, NYC, an Artist's Residential/Studio compound in the Crenshaw District of L.A., a Residenrial Book Tower in the Koreatown section of L.A., and a 100 Kilowatt Solar Carport/Garden Sundial Project in collaboration with Golden Energy. He has been in the "Architect's Do Furniture" show for the Venice Art Walk. The collaborative works have been at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA and at Chapman University's Guggenheim Gallery in Orange, CA. He was included in "The Bean Show" at DiRT Gallery, in West Hollywood, CA. Julius Shulman photographed the Pittman/Dowell Pavilion in 2005. His work was part of Do It Now: Living Green at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, during the fall of 2007. Tetras, a collaboration with artist Ann Preston was exhibited at the 2011 World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
His drawings and projects have appeared in Progressive Architecture, Werk, Bauen und Wohen, aktuelles (sic) Bauen, Schwiezer Ingeniur und Architekt, L.A. Architect, SCI-Arc Building in L.A (AIA Convention), the Less Is More cataolgue (SCI-Arc exhibition), the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Jose Mercury-News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sculpture Magazine, Visions Magazine, the 25th Anniversary edition of SCI-Arc Building in Los Angeles, Metropolitan Home Magazine, and in the books L.A. Modern by Tim Street Porter, Rizzoli Press, October, 2008, The New Western Home by Chase Reynolds Ewald and Audry Hall, Gibbs Smith Publishing, October 2009, Concursos (Competitions) from Monsa Publications, S.A., Barcelona, Spain, February 2011, and , most recently, the Time Is Now - Public Art of the Sustainable City, Land Art Generator Initiative, Page One Publishing, April 2012
In the early 80's he worked in Bern, Switzerland with Daniel Herren, AIA, SIA, at Helfer Architekten, A.G., and, later, with the UNI-Tobler Group where he coordinated the preliminary studies for the adaptive re-use of the old Tobler Chocolate Factory for the Bernese Pedagological School and the University of Bern. He attended the opening of the building in the spring of 1993. He has traveled and made study trips all over Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as to India, Australia, El Savador, and more recently to Mexico and the United Arab Emirates.
After returning to Los Angeles in 1985, he worked with Michael Rachlin, AIA, before forming his own firm concentrating on residential and commercial work. He has taught at SCI-Arc, Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design, and lectured at the University of Southern California, California State University, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and the Universitaet fuer Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, Austria. He has also been on architecture reviews at California State Polytechical University at Pomona, Woodbury University, in Burbank, California and at Washington University, in Saint Louis, Missouri. He has collaborated with artists Daniel Joseph Martinez and Renee Petropoulos on large scale urban artworks, their piece "Your Move" was dedicated in July, 1996 at the Municipal Services Building's Thomas Paine Plaza in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He has built projects all over Los Angeles: Venice, Hermosa Beach, Pacific Palisades, Coldwater Canyon, Benedict Canyon, Mar Vista, West Adams, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and La Crescenta as well as Sullivan County, in Upstate New York, Three Rivers, in Tulare County, CA and in Big Timber, Montana. Recent projects are Counter Organic Bar and Vegetarian Bistro in the East Village, NYC, an Artist's Residential/Studio compound in the Crenshaw District of L.A., a Residenrial Book Tower in the Koreatown section of L.A., and a 100 Kilowatt Solar Carport/Garden Sundial Project in collaboration with Golden Energy. He has been in the "Architect's Do Furniture" show for the Venice Art Walk. The collaborative works have been at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA and at Chapman University's Guggenheim Gallery in Orange, CA. He was included in "The Bean Show" at DiRT Gallery, in West Hollywood, CA. Julius Shulman photographed the Pittman/Dowell Pavilion in 2005. His work was part of Do It Now: Living Green at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, during the fall of 2007. Tetras, a collaboration with artist Ann Preston was exhibited at the 2011 World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
His drawings and projects have appeared in Progressive Architecture, Werk, Bauen und Wohen, aktuelles (sic) Bauen, Schwiezer Ingeniur und Architekt, L.A. Architect, SCI-Arc Building in L.A (AIA Convention), the Less Is More cataolgue (SCI-Arc exhibition), the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Jose Mercury-News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sculpture Magazine, Visions Magazine, the 25th Anniversary edition of SCI-Arc Building in Los Angeles, Metropolitan Home Magazine, and in the books L.A. Modern by Tim Street Porter, Rizzoli Press, October, 2008, The New Western Home by Chase Reynolds Ewald and Audry Hall, Gibbs Smith Publishing, October 2009, Concursos (Competitions) from Monsa Publications, S.A., Barcelona, Spain, February 2011, and , most recently, the Time Is Now - Public Art of the Sustainable City, Land Art Generator Initiative, Page One Publishing, April 2012