Mr. White, an architect himself, was a native New Yorker. He was born on June 12, 1926, and raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, then spent much of his adult life in Brooklyn Heights. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and a master’s degree from Princeton in 1955. He also attended the architecture program at the Fontainebleau Schools in France.
Mr. White, an architect himself, was a native New Yorker. He was born on June 12, 1926, and raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, then spent much of his adult life in Brooklyn Heights. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and a master’s degree from Princeton in 1955. He also attended the architecture program at the Fontainebleau Schools in France.

He taught at the Cooper Union and in 1968 became the founding chairman of the City College School of Architecture and Environmental Studies (now the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture). That was where he met Camilla Crowe, who, in her late 40s, had returned to the classroom. They wed in 1992.

Norval White