Rodney Walker

Rodney Walker (1910–1986) was an American midcentury modern designer and builder who specialized in residential architecture in the Southern California area. He contributed three designs to Arts & Architecture magazine's Case Study House program during the late 1940s (Case Study House #16, #17, and #18). Many of his homes were photographed by Julius Shulman for Arts & Architecture, Better Homes and Gardens, Architectural Record, Sunset, and the Los Angeles Times Home magazine.

Life and career Rodney Walker was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 15, 1910, and primarily raised in Ely, Nevada. He attended Pasadena City College before transferring to University of California Los Angeles

Between 2012 and 2014, actor Zac Efron lived in a Walker house in Hollywood Hills West which was originally designed for the Case Study Program; the home was eventually built in 1947. It sold for $2.775 million in 2014.