Carl Welty has over 30 years of experience in the field of architecture.

In 2008 Carl joined the award-winning architectural firm Claremont Environmental Design Group as a principal.  CEDG had been founded by an architect and a landscape architect who taught at Cal Poly Pomona and were both closely involved with developing Cal Poly’s John Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies.  The firm grew out of the pathbreaking work of John Lyle in the field of regenerative design,
Eco-systematic design, and sustainable land planning; for 30 years CEDG has been building sustainable designs that work.  Carl and his partner Erik Peterson are committed to expanding on the firm’s founding ideas, delivering projects that integrate architecture and landscape architecture into a seamless whole.

Carl has worked as an architect in the Los Angeles area for twenty years, and from 1996 to 2008 had his own successful practice of residential, commercial, and multi-family projects.  He is committed to creating an architecture that embodies our time, ideals and best technologies—an architecture that will survive us and represent us to future generations.   As a child, Carl lived in Turkey, and was deeply affected by seeing the ruins and ancient cities of many cultures, internalizing a knowledge that what and how we build today will impact future generations. 

Carl received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1984, and a Masters of Architecture from Yale University in 1988.  At Yale, he studied the impact of early 20th-century European painting on the way we create architectural space.

Carl lives in Pomona and is married to Ruth Charloff, a music conductor.  They have a daughter, Eliza.