A.B. & M.Arch., Yale University

Arthur Golding has taught studios exploring high-rise construction and urban design plans for the historic Seventh Street shopping district, the Los Angeles River, Figueroa-Flower corridor and bridging the Harbor Freeway in downtown Los Angeles. His recent studio, Rebirth of the Boulevards, proposed high-density housing along the miles of underutilized commercial corridors of Los Angeles. His firm, Arthur Golding and Associates, was established in 1983. He served as a principal consultant on the award-winning regional open space plan, Common Ground: From the Mountains to the Sea. Recent work includes the Center for Advanced Computing Research, a supercomputer facility at Caltech. He designed the proposed Rancho Mirage Civic Center, a garden complex including library, city offices and council chamber. He prepared the master plan for the expansion of Loyola Marymount University and designed a 90,000 square-foot business school, completed in 1995. Prior to founding his own firm, he was principal in charge of design at William L. Pereira Associates, where he designed the American Airlines corporate headquarters in Dallas and the Citicorp office tower in San Francisco. Mr. Golding has been active in USC’s Architectural Guild, of which he is a former president. He is current president of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council, a nonprofit group involved in issues of regional water management and river system revitalization.