Background
Walter Wurdeman was born in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
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Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles
General Petroleum Building, Los Angeles
Walter Wurdeman
Walter Wurdeman was an american architect, worked in partnership with Weldon Becket, won a national reputation in the field of contemporary work.
Education
He studied architecture at the University of Washington, and received his Master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For a supplementary training he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, also studied at Fontainbleu, France.
Career
Ha was associated in partnership with Weldon Becket (Wurdeman & Becket) after 1931, the firm acquired a large practice in Los Angeles, and at the time or Mr. Wurdeman s death had won a national reputation in the field of contemporary work.
During all too brief a career of fifteen years he collaborated with his partner on the design of many buildings, including the Prudential Life Insurance Company office building in Los Angeles, Bullock’s Pasadena and Palm Springs store buildings; the Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles, also the General Petroleum Building and Garage. In an earlier period Wurdeman & Becket designed a number of costly residences in Bel Air and Brentwood, also smart shops, stores, restaurants, hotels, and multi-family housing projects in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Wash., also in Philadelphia, where the firm opened a branch office in 1939. Shortly before Mr. Wurdeman's decease he and his partner were chosen architects for the new Medical Center, an extensive project, at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Works
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Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles
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General Petroleum Building, Los Angeles
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Connections
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- Weldon Becket
Mr. Wurdeman was associated in partnership with Weldon Becket (Wurdeman & Becket) after 1931.
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Died
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Nationality
American