Stefanos Polyzoides
Associate Professor
Teaching Area
Urban Design and Planning, DesignEducation
MArch/Urban Planning, Princeton University, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1972
BA in Arch, Princeton University, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1969
Teaching and Administrative Experience
Courses Taught
ARCH 302 - Third Year Design Studio
ARCH 402 - Topic Studio
ARCH 501- Thesis Preparation
ARCH 502 - Thesis Studio
ARCH 532a - Elements of the Urban Landscape
ARCH 533b - Urban Landscape Case Studies
Positions
Associate Professor, USC School of Architecture, 1979-present
Assistant Professor, USC School of Architecture, 1973-1979
Lecturer, Princeton University, 1972-1973
Memberships
Co-founder, Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)
Co-author, The Ahwanhee Principles, CA Community Planning Guidelines
Los Angeles Conservancy and Pasadena Heritage
Design Council, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Friends of the Schindler House, Board of Directors
Princeton University School of Architecture, Board of Overseers, 1983-1986
Academic and Professional Honors
AIA Medal for Excellence in the Study of Architecture, (Princeton) 1972.
HCT Butler Traveling Scholarship, (Princeton) 1970
Publications (Selected)
Entry in Dictionnaire de l'Architecture Moderne et Contemporaine, Institute Francais d'Architecture, 1996Toward an Architecture of Uran and Ecological Consequence, Modulus 24, 1996
American Campus Planning, in monograph on the work of Moore, Ruble, Yudell, 1996
Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles, 1st ed. in Japanese and 3rd ed. in English, 1996
Playa Vista, Casabella, 1995
Moore Ruble Yudell, monograph, AIA Press, 1995
Toward an Architecture of Urban and Ecological Consequence, Modulus 24, 1995
The USC School of Architecture and its Role in the City, Form 6, The USC School of Architecture Quarterly, 1995
Five Los Angeleses, and Downtown in the Twentieth Century: The Struggle for Defining the Center of Los Angeles, World Cities: LA, Academy Editions, 1994
The Playa Vista and Downtown Los Angeles Strategic Plan, de Architect, Rotterdam,. The Netherlands , 1994
The Alexanderpolder Development under the Sighting of the New Urbanism, De Architect, 1993
Tearing Down the temple: The New Civic Architecture, Architectural Record, 1993
Los Angeles Architecture: The Contemporary Condition, by James Steele, Phaidon Press, 1993
8 California Campuses, w/ Peter de Bretteville, University of Miami School of Architecture magazine, 1993
The New Urbanism: Towards an Architecture of Community, by Peter Katz, McGraw Hill, 1993
Schindler's Architecture Inside Out, R.M. Schindler: Space and Composition, Academy Editions, 1993 Academy Editions, 1993
The Schindler-Chase Duplex and Architecture in Concrete in California, Los Angeles, 1990
Exhibitions
The Third Los Angeles: Architecture Downtown from 1910-1939, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1994Urban Revisions, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, 1994
Kaufmann, Coate, Johnson and the Triumph of Architecture in Southern California, Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, 1992
Wallace Neff and the Romance of Regional Architecture, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1989
Research (Selected)
Documentation of the Furniture of R.M. Schindler, National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1984Construction of a Traveling Exhibition on the work of R.M. Schindler, National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1982
Study of the Residential Designs of R.M. Schindler, Graham Foundation Grant, 1977
Study of the Los Angeles Residential Courts, National Endowment of the Arts Grant, 1976
Service
School
Executive Committee (School), Fall 1994
Lecture and Exhibits Committee (School), 1992-1994
Master of Architecture Director (School), 1991-1993
Professional
Schindler House Restoration Committee, 1990-1995
Registration
California, Arizona
Professional Experience (Selected)
Partner, Elizabeth Moule and Stefanos Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists, Los Angeles, CA, 1990-present
Studio Village Neighborhood, Culver City, 1994
Los Angeles Times Block Expansion, Los Angeles, 1994
Florida Atlantic University New Campus Plan, Jupiter, FL, 1994
American University in Yerevan, Armenia, 1993
Town Plan for Abacoa, FL, 1993
Industrial District Mixed Use Guidelines, Santa Monica, 1993
Marinos Residence, Pacific Palisades, 1992
Metrolink Bus Rail Interchange Station at Union Station, Los Angeles, 1992
Westridge School Expansion, Pasadena, 1992
Downtown Los Angeles Strategic Plan, 1991
Bunker Hill Open Space Study, Los Angeles, 1991
Century City Twentieth Century Fox Lot Study, Los Angeles, 1991
Residence Halls, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1990
Roxbury Drive Condominiums, Beverly Hills, 1990
Partner, de Bretteville & Polyzoides, Los Angeles, CA, 1982-1990
Playa Vista New Town, Los Angeles, 1989
Durant Drive Condominiums, Beverly Hills, 1989
Project Architect, Bobrow/Thomas and Associates, Architects, Westwood, CA, 1979-1982
Partner, Studio 7, Los Angeles, CA, 1978-1979
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