White may not carry the cachet of an artist of Wong’s stature, but the idea of introducing him to a hometown audience possibly unfamiliar with his work is the same. Despite a career spanning five decades, White and his work have been eclipsed by that of his former mentor and eventual colleague Arthur Erickson. The embodiment of the “starchitect”, Erickson was as famous for his extracurricular exploits as he was for buildings like the Law Courts in Vancouver; the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. While Erickson was jet-setting around the world, palling around with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the heady ’70s, and generally boosting his public profile with a personal love of decadence that belied the pared-down aesthetic of his buildings, White was a constant craftsman. A master of balance and the interplay between shape and form, the unassuming architect was responsible for hundreds of residences up and down the West Coast but never sought the spotlight. He didn’t need to. “He never had to hunt for commissions,” says Gosselin, “he worked by word of mouth.”