The Zohrab Center cordially invites you to an in-person event jointly hosted by St. Vartan Cathedral after Badarak on Sunday, March 30th. Architect Ronald Altoon will be presenting his work on churches and monasteries of Armenia to be featured in a forthcoming book.

A former National President of The American Institute of Architects, Ronald Altoon (https://altoon.com/) is an internationally recognized architect with numerous awards for design excellence.  He has planned or implemented projects totaling over 225 million square feet constructed in the United States and in 46 foreign countries.  Besides serving on multiple university, civic, cultural, and philanthropic boards, he has taught at USC and UCLA and has lectured at many other prominent universities.  He is author of seven books on design as well as one currently in final editing, Monasteries and Churches of Ancient Armenia.

A third generation American Armenian, Altoon organized and led an American Institute of Architects Task Force to Armenia twice in 1989 following the horrific Spitak Earthquake to create a master plan to rebuild the epicenter city.  For his efforts there he was awarded the Memorial Medal from the Politburo of the Republic of Amenia, S.S.R.  He designed the technologically state-of-the-art academic Avedisian building for the American University of Armenia, and advised the AMAA on the design of the K-12 Avedisian High School & Community Center in Yerevan, acting as sustainable design champion achieving LEED Silver and LEED Earth certifications.