Walter Fujimoto

Architect | 1925

Walter Fujimoto was born in San Diego in 1925. He served in the U.S. Army (1951-53) following graduation from the IIT in 1949 with a BS in Architecture. Walter established the firm Bird, Fujimoto & Fish (in 1967) with James Wright Bird and Charles William Fish.

Westgate Plaza Hotel (1970) by Bird, Fujimoto & Fish. Photograph by Julius Shulman © J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10)

Partial List of Projects

Bachelor Officers' Quarters (1969)
San Diego
*Bird, Fujimoto & Fish

Fifth Avenue Financial Center (1965)
2550 Fifth Avenue
*Bird, Fujimoto & Fish

Hipodromo-Galgodromo (1966)
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
*Bird, Fujimoto & Fish

National City Civic Center (1967)
National City
*Bird, Fujimoto & Fish

Palomar Mt. Camp & Camp Cuyamaca (1969)
Palomar Mountain - San Diego County
*Bird, Fujimoto & Fish

Westgate Plaza Hotel (ca. 1970)
1055 2nd Avenue
*Bird, Fujimoto & Fish

Walter Fujimoto

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