ASIA/PACIFIC BUSINESS OUTLOOK CONFERENCE

EXPANDING YOUR ASIA PACIFIC
KNOWLEDGE, CONTACTS AND PROFITS

APRIL 7-8, 2014

LOS ANGELES

Ronald A. Altoon
FAIA
Partner Emeritus, Altoon Partners LLP
Los Angeles

Ronald Altoon brings contextually sensitive and sustainable design principles to both his practice and design. Defining context holistically as the natural forces of the sun, wind, and water; the geographic forces of geology and landscape; the physical forces of urban form, infrastructure, and mobility; the human forces of the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic condition; and the market forces of need and desire, psychology and competition, his global projects reflect the human condition as it resides place to place. A USC School of Architecture honors graduate, he received his M.Arch from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Louis Kahn and Ian McHarg.


Altoon is a former national President of The American Institute of Architects, having also served the AIA Los Angeles Chapter and AIA California Council. For six years he represented architects in The Americas on the Council of the International Union of Architects (UIA). Following the 1988 devastating 6.8 Richter Spitak earthquake, he led an AIA urban design disaster assistance team to Armenia, and was the architect member of the ULI New York/New Jersey World Trade Center Blue Ribbon Panel following the horrific 911event.


He founded the USC Friends of The Gamble House and Friends of the Schindler House, served as President of the USC Architectural Guild and the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors, and sits on the USC School of Architecture Board of Councilors. He has been on 10 NAAB Accreditation Teams and is a member of the GSA Register of Peer Professionals. Altoon is the first practicing architect to become a Trustee of ICSC and 2011-13 Chair of the ULI LA District Council. The author of 7 books, Altoon lectures frequently at universities, for the profession and to the real estate industry on design and entrepreneurial global practice.


In 1991 he took his firm’s design practice overseas and now has offices in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Shanghai, and business entities in Moscow, Hong Kong and Brussels. Working collaboratively with local firms, Altoon has led master planning, urban design, and architectural design efforts on complex mixed-use, transit, higher education, residential, and historic preservation projects in 43 countries. His design work has garnered over 75 awards worldwide.


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