modern architects, practicing critical regionalism in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland Vancouver Region, in the Pacific Northwest. His education at the Vancouver School of Art and subsequent studies at the School of Architecture, University of British Columbia exposed him to a circle of instructors and mentors such as B.C. Binning, Ron Thom, Frederick Lasserre, Abraham Rogatnick, and Arthur Erickson.A fusion of sensibilities derived in part from the early tenets of International Modernism, mid-century Abstract Art, the emerging post-and-beam aesthetic of early Vancouver Modern Architecture, and aesthetic Landscape approaches embraced by such local practitioners as Cornelia Oberlander, would formulate, in Dan White’s expression, an architecture widely independent of theory but rooted in nuanced readings of site, the domestic program and material resolution.Beginning soon after graduation, White designed many projects for young idealistic professionals and university colleagues, comprising primarily single family houses. As these individuals’ careers flourished in the economy of Vancouver’s mid- to late-20th century, his client base expanded to include many of the key individuals of the local business and cultural elite. Over the nearly fifty-year period of his practice he was involved in well over 100 projects, more than half of them significant new buildings.