About us
Harold Guida LFRAIA AIA, Partner
Harold Guida has over forty years of international experience on wide-ranging architectural, interior design, and urban design projects undertaken in the United States, Australia, South-East Asia, and China.
Originally a partner of Mitchell/Giurgola Architects in the United States, he relocated to Canberra with MGT Architects in 1981 as Partner-in-Charge of Design Co-ordination for Australia’s new Parliament House. Since the completion of that project in 1988, Harold Guida has led multi-disciplinary teams on numerous projects ranging from office interiors and private houses to school, university and civic buildings, large residential and mixed-use urban buildings, as well as public master plans and urban design proposals for government, private, and commercial clients.
Many of his architectural projects are conceived in urban design terms due to their mixed-use components and their close and sensitive integrations into the fabric of city form.
Mr Guida completed his Bachelor of Architecture at Arizona State University before attaining a Master of Architecture majoring in Urban Design degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Sunshine Coast.
A Life Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and Member of the American Institute of Architects, Mr Guida has also been on the Faculty of Architecture at Temple University and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University.
He has served as a Council Member of DesignSingapore, an Adviser to Old Parliament House, Singapore and has served on numerous competition and awards juries.