Experience

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  Bobrow/Thomas and Associates-BTA

  • Southern California

  • Founder and Design Principal

    • May 1972 - Present
    • Southern California

    Advisory services- Institutional Campus Planning Medical Centers and Higher Education BiographyForty years experience guiding major medical and higher education clients developing long range master plans and significant architectural projects.Author of frequent articles on the state of Healthcare Architecture for Architectural Record and Hospital Forum Magazines.Founder of the UCLA graduate program in Healthcare design and University and College Master Planning - adjunct Professor in the joint program of the graduate schools of Architecture and Public Health.Founding Campus Architect and Master Planner for several new campuses including the new California State University in Channel Islands and the Otis College of Design in Los Angeles.Co-Author of "Humanizing the Institution- the Architecture of Bobrow/Thomas Associates". Co-Author of "Building Type Studies for Health Care Facilities".Chairman of the Board and benefactor of the Friends of the Schindler House, Chairman of the Board Arts and Architecture Magazine and Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee for the UCLA-Westwood Village Business Improvement District. Board member at the Otis College of Art and Design, the Mt. St. Mary's College and the UCLA graduate school of Public Health.Architect and master planner for major projects at Stanford University, the Veterans Administration, United States Air Force, United States Navy, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, USC, Cook County Hospital Chicago, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, the City of Hope, Huntington Medical Center, the Motion Picture and Television Country Home and Hospital, the Society of Singers Retirement Home, Ararat Retirement Home, St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee among many others. Architect for the largest (1 million sf , $1 billion project cost ) base isolated hospital in the world.

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  UCLA

  • Los Angeles, California

  • Founder UCLA program in hospital planning- schools of Public Health and Architecture

    • May 1972 - Jun 1981
    • Los Angeles, California

    Founded and ran a new program which evolved into studies for the master planning and design of major university and health care institutions.

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  Medical Planning Associates

  • Malibu, California

  • Director of Planning

    • Apr 1966 - Apr 1972
    • Malibu, California

    Led the planning, programming, research and educational activities for a leading international hospital design firm. Was responsible for new business development and public speaking and developed an extensive publication program in leading healthcare and architecture magazines and founded a monthly bylined column "On Planning and Design" for Hospital Forum magazine, the monthly magazine for the Hospital Council of Southern California.

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  USAF Surgeon General

  • Washington, DC and world wide

  • Senior Architect

    • 1963 - Mar 1966
    • Washington, DC and world wide

    As commissioned officer, served as the Senior Architect for the USAF Surgeon General and its worldwide hospital and clinic planning and design activities during the Vietnam era.