{{short description|American architect}} {{Infobox person | name = Arthur Banta Gallion | image = Arthur Gallion.jpg | caption = Gallion from 1946 USC yearbook | birth_name = | birth_date = June 30, 1902 | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = July 18, 1978 | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign<br/>École des Beaux-Arts | occupation = Architect | employer = | known_for = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = }}

'''Arthur Gallion''' (June 30, 1902 – July 18, 1978) was an American architect. He was the dean of architecture at the University of Southern California from 1945 to 1964. His co-authored ''The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design'' "became the standard textbook in the field".

==Early life== Arthur Gallion was born on June 30, 1902, in Chicago, Illinois.<ref name="onlinearchivegallion">{{cite web|title=Arthur B. Gallion Collection 2012-08|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8542rxd/entire_text/|website=Online Archive of California|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref><ref name="ucberkeleygallionarthur">{{cite web|title=GALLION, ARTHUR|url=http://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/collections/gallion-arthur|website=Environmental Design Archives|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1924.<ref name="ucberkeleygallionarthur"/> He won a Steedman Fellowship to travel in Europe in 1927–1928,<ref name="ucberkeleygallionarthur"/> during which time he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.<ref name="onlinearchivegallion"/>

==Career== Gallion began his career as an architect in Urbana, Illinois.<ref name="ucberkeleygallionarthur"/> He worked for the Public Works Administration in Washington, D.C., from 1934 to 1936.<ref name="onlinearchivegallion"/><ref name="ucberkeleygallionarthur"/> He then moved his practice to Oakland, California, where he designed houses until 1945.<ref name="ucberkeleygallionarthur"/> During World War II, he also designed projects for the federal government.<ref name="ucberkeleygallionarthur"/>

Gallion served as the dean of architecture at the University of Southern California from 1945 to 1964.<ref name="ucberkeleygallionarthur"/> During his tenure, he founded the department of industrial design, chaired by Raymond Loewy.<ref name="onlinearchivegallion"/> He served on the Los Angeles City Regional Planning Unit shortly after World War II.<ref name="onlinearchivegallion"/> In 1951, he co-authored a book on urban design with Simon Eisner; it "became the standard textbook in the field".<ref name="onlinearchivegallion"/> He became a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1957.<ref name="ucberkeleygallionarthur"/>

Gallion designed the Raymond Joseph Sedlachek in Sherman Oaks.<ref name="pcadsedlachek">{{cite web|title=Sedlachek, Raymond Joseph, House, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, CA|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/4300/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> With fellow architects Frederick Earl Emmons, Douglas Honnold, A. Quincy Jones, Maynard Lyndon, John Leon Rex and Raphael Soriano, he designed the San Pedro Community Hospital at 1300 West 7th Street in San Pedro, Los Angeles in 1958-1960.<ref name="pcadsanpedro">{{cite web|title=San Pedro Community Hospital, San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA (1958-1960)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/18009/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref>

==Death== Gallion died on July 18, 1978.<ref name="ucberkeleygallionarthur"/><ref name="latimesobit">{{cite news|title=Ex-USC Architecture Dean Arthur Gallion Dies|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=July 18, 1978|page=42}}</ref>

==Works== *{{cite book|last1=Eisner|first1=Simon|last2=Gallion|first2=Arthur|title=The Urban Pattern: City Planning and Design|date=1951|publisher=Van Nostrand|location=New York|oclc=213798727}}

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