Arthur Golding AIA LEED AP
Arthur Golding is an architect with over 40 years of experience in the profession.
Registered in California since 1971 (License C-6635), he is a member of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Golding is a LEED accredited design professional.
Education
Mr. Golding received his B.A. from Yale University in 1963 and his M.Arch from Yale in 1967.
While a graduate student, he edited Perspecta 11, the Yale Architectural Journal. Mr. Golding received a Graham Foundation award for a joint project with painters and sculptors concerning art in the urban environment.
Experience
Mr. Golding's 2011 design for adaptive reuse of the space in the historic Seventh Street Bridge over the LA River is sponsored by the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation. Mr. Golding was a member of the design team for the Los Angeles State Historic Park near downtown Los Angeles. Mr. Golding's work includes the Powell-Booth Laboratory, a 20,000-square-foot renovation for a supercomputing facility at Caltech. Educational work includes remodeling an existing commercial building for Magnolia Science Academy, a new charter school, as well as three projects for LAUSD: high technology computer classrooms and air conditioning renovations on two campuses, one of them a 900-seat auditorium.
Mr. Golding designed the proposed Civic Center for the City of Rancho Mirage. Planned around a central Public Garden, the 70,000-square-foot complex includes a council chamber, city offices and library. He prepared the master plan for the expansion of the campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and designed its first buildings, a 90,000-square-foot business school completed in 1995 and a central utilities plant completed in 1991. The plan includes a 900-car parking structure located under an intramural playing field. The firm has completed additions and renovations to campus facilities at Pitzer College, Claremont, including an elevator addition and a reading room, and at LMU.
Mr. Golding collaborated in preparing the Metro-Universal RiverWalk Vision Plan, an alternative to proposed development plans. He served as a peer reviewer for the City of Los Angeles for the Los Angeles River Revitalization Plan. He served as a principal consultant for the Common Ground plan, a prize-winning overview open space plan that sets forth sustainable urban design guidelines for the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers double watershed, prepared for the California Resources Agency.
The firm's work has been recognized in several design competitions, including an elementary school at the LA Museum of Science and Industry, an art museum at UC Santa Barbara and a master plan for City College of San Francisco. A finalist in the national design competition for a civic center in Hemet, the firm won the national competition for the Rancho Mirage project.
Arthur Golding was Principal in Charge of Design for William L. Pereira Associates until resigning to found his own firm in 1983. He joined Pereira in 1975, became Director of Design in 1979 and a principal in 1981.
At Pereira, Mr. Golding directed the design of major architectural projects. He designed the 550,000-square-foot American Airlines corporate headquarters, a low-rise, energy-efficient complex set on a forested ridge near the Dallas/Fort Worth airport. Mr. Golding designed the Citicorp Center in San Francisco. Completed in 1982, the project combines a 41-story, 700,000-square-foot office tower with an historic structure at its base. The Beaux Arts interior was reconstructed in white marble and roofed in glass to form a 10,000-square-foot public conservatory within the historic facade. Mr. Golding designed the 500-room Hilton Hotel at Universal City in Los Angeles. Public areas are a series of courts and gardens. Motor court entrances to hotel and banquet facilities are above a 700-car hillside parking structure.
Mr. Golding had a broad involvement with urban design and master planning projects at Pereira. He developed the master plan for the Venezuelan Institute of Petroleum Technology, a laboratory complex on a hillside near Caracas, and he designed and managed the architectural work for the first buildings built on the campus. He led the design team for the Imperial Medical Center of Iran, a large project including hospital, research buildings, medical school and a national medical library. Mr. Golding designed significant smaller projects at Pereira, among them a 50,000-square-foot newspaper building in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Prior to joining Pereira, Mr. Golding was head of the design department at Gruen Associates in Los Angeles. He joined Gruen in 1968 and was with the firm through late 1975, working with Cesar Pelli.
At Gruen, Mr. Golding was the project designer for the US Embassy in Tokyo, completed in 1975, and for the proposed School of Music for Yale. He was the project designer for Queens Fashion Mall in Queens, NY and for Foxhills Mall in Los Angeles, both major regional shopping centers. Both projects include large parking structures.
Mr. Golding's work at Gruen included master planning and urban design studies, rapid transit, office buildings, specialty retail and residential condominiums. He was a member of the Gruen team, led by Cesar Pelli, that won the international competition for a United Nations office and conference center in Vienna.
Prior to finishing graduate school, Mr. Golding took a year off to work in the small New York office of Harold Buttrick AIA. There he designed and prepared working drawings for a monastery for contemplative Dominican nuns built near Nairobi, Kenya, using blocks of local volcanic stone. He designed furnishings and cabinetry for the monastery. Mr. Golding designed an observatory on Nantucket Island for the Buttrick office.
Publications
Mr. Golding has written for several journals, including Architectural Design and Progressive Architecture. His work has been published in American and international journals, He has written about the Los Angeles River for The Planning Report.
Teaching
Mr.Golding has taught architectural and urban design at USC, where he is an adjunct assistant professor. His studios have explored sites along the LA RIver, housing along underutilized LA boulevards, community libraries, urban schools, mixed-use parking structures and the Figueroa corridor from downtown LA to USC, as well as Central City West. He has been a visiting lecturer and critic at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the University of Washington and at Yale. Together with a colleague at USC, Mr. Golding was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for a study of urban bridges.
Professional Organizations
Mr. Golding is past president of the Council for Watershed Health, a nonprofit stakeholder group involved in issues of regional water management and river and ecosystem restoration, and he served as principal author of the Council's 25-year vision statement. He chairs the Council's Landscape Ethic Committee, which promotes sustainable landscapes emphasizing native plants. Mr. Golding is a past president of the Architectural Guild, a support organization for the USC School of Architecture. A past director of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Mr. Golding chaired the chapter's LA River task force. Mr Golding serves as a member of the LA River Master Plan Advisory Committee for the County of Los Angeles.
Registered in California since 1971 (License C-6635), he is a member of the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Golding is a LEED accredited design professional.
Education
Mr. Golding received his B.A. from Yale University in 1963 and his M.Arch from Yale in 1967.
While a graduate student, he edited Perspecta 11, the Yale Architectural Journal. Mr. Golding received a Graham Foundation award for a joint project with painters and sculptors concerning art in the urban environment.
Experience
Mr. Golding's 2011 design for adaptive reuse of the space in the historic Seventh Street Bridge over the LA River is sponsored by the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation. Mr. Golding was a member of the design team for the Los Angeles State Historic Park near downtown Los Angeles. Mr. Golding's work includes the Powell-Booth Laboratory, a 20,000-square-foot renovation for a supercomputing facility at Caltech. Educational work includes remodeling an existing commercial building for Magnolia Science Academy, a new charter school, as well as three projects for LAUSD: high technology computer classrooms and air conditioning renovations on two campuses, one of them a 900-seat auditorium.
Mr. Golding designed the proposed Civic Center for the City of Rancho Mirage. Planned around a central Public Garden, the 70,000-square-foot complex includes a council chamber, city offices and library. He prepared the master plan for the expansion of the campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and designed its first buildings, a 90,000-square-foot business school completed in 1995 and a central utilities plant completed in 1991. The plan includes a 900-car parking structure located under an intramural playing field. The firm has completed additions and renovations to campus facilities at Pitzer College, Claremont, including an elevator addition and a reading room, and at LMU.
Mr. Golding collaborated in preparing the Metro-Universal RiverWalk Vision Plan, an alternative to proposed development plans. He served as a peer reviewer for the City of Los Angeles for the Los Angeles River Revitalization Plan. He served as a principal consultant for the Common Ground plan, a prize-winning overview open space plan that sets forth sustainable urban design guidelines for the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers double watershed, prepared for the California Resources Agency.
The firm's work has been recognized in several design competitions, including an elementary school at the LA Museum of Science and Industry, an art museum at UC Santa Barbara and a master plan for City College of San Francisco. A finalist in the national design competition for a civic center in Hemet, the firm won the national competition for the Rancho Mirage project.
Arthur Golding was Principal in Charge of Design for William L. Pereira Associates until resigning to found his own firm in 1983. He joined Pereira in 1975, became Director of Design in 1979 and a principal in 1981.
At Pereira, Mr. Golding directed the design of major architectural projects. He designed the 550,000-square-foot American Airlines corporate headquarters, a low-rise, energy-efficient complex set on a forested ridge near the Dallas/Fort Worth airport. Mr. Golding designed the Citicorp Center in San Francisco. Completed in 1982, the project combines a 41-story, 700,000-square-foot office tower with an historic structure at its base. The Beaux Arts interior was reconstructed in white marble and roofed in glass to form a 10,000-square-foot public conservatory within the historic facade. Mr. Golding designed the 500-room Hilton Hotel at Universal City in Los Angeles. Public areas are a series of courts and gardens. Motor court entrances to hotel and banquet facilities are above a 700-car hillside parking structure.
Mr. Golding had a broad involvement with urban design and master planning projects at Pereira. He developed the master plan for the Venezuelan Institute of Petroleum Technology, a laboratory complex on a hillside near Caracas, and he designed and managed the architectural work for the first buildings built on the campus. He led the design team for the Imperial Medical Center of Iran, a large project including hospital, research buildings, medical school and a national medical library. Mr. Golding designed significant smaller projects at Pereira, among them a 50,000-square-foot newspaper building in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Prior to joining Pereira, Mr. Golding was head of the design department at Gruen Associates in Los Angeles. He joined Gruen in 1968 and was with the firm through late 1975, working with Cesar Pelli.
At Gruen, Mr. Golding was the project designer for the US Embassy in Tokyo, completed in 1975, and for the proposed School of Music for Yale. He was the project designer for Queens Fashion Mall in Queens, NY and for Foxhills Mall in Los Angeles, both major regional shopping centers. Both projects include large parking structures.
Mr. Golding's work at Gruen included master planning and urban design studies, rapid transit, office buildings, specialty retail and residential condominiums. He was a member of the Gruen team, led by Cesar Pelli, that won the international competition for a United Nations office and conference center in Vienna.
Prior to finishing graduate school, Mr. Golding took a year off to work in the small New York office of Harold Buttrick AIA. There he designed and prepared working drawings for a monastery for contemplative Dominican nuns built near Nairobi, Kenya, using blocks of local volcanic stone. He designed furnishings and cabinetry for the monastery. Mr. Golding designed an observatory on Nantucket Island for the Buttrick office.
Publications
Mr. Golding has written for several journals, including Architectural Design and Progressive Architecture. His work has been published in American and international journals, He has written about the Los Angeles River for The Planning Report.
Teaching
Mr.Golding has taught architectural and urban design at USC, where he is an adjunct assistant professor. His studios have explored sites along the LA RIver, housing along underutilized LA boulevards, community libraries, urban schools, mixed-use parking structures and the Figueroa corridor from downtown LA to USC, as well as Central City West. He has been a visiting lecturer and critic at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the University of Washington and at Yale. Together with a colleague at USC, Mr. Golding was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for a study of urban bridges.
Professional Organizations
Mr. Golding is past president of the Council for Watershed Health, a nonprofit stakeholder group involved in issues of regional water management and river and ecosystem restoration, and he served as principal author of the Council's 25-year vision statement. He chairs the Council's Landscape Ethic Committee, which promotes sustainable landscapes emphasizing native plants. Mr. Golding is a past president of the Architectural Guild, a support organization for the USC School of Architecture. A past director of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Mr. Golding chaired the chapter's LA River task force. Mr Golding serves as a member of the LA River Master Plan Advisory Committee for the County of Los Angeles.