Anthony Lazzaro, a longtime USC administrator who guided the rapid expansion of the university’s campus and helped make USC central to the 1984 Olympics, has died at his home in Palos Verdes Estates. Lazzaro died Thursday of natural causes, his family members said. He was 100.

During his 42-year tenure with USC — first as an assistant business manager and eventually climbing the ranks to university vice president and special advisor to the president in 1988 — Lazzaro was responsible for the construction of 132 university buildings, growing USC from a small commuter campus with no clearly defined boundaries to the sprawling bastion of research it is today.