Stefanos Polyzoides
Moule and Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists
Stefanos Polyzoides received his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude and Masters in Architecture from Princeton University. He is a registered architect in the states of California and Arizona. He was born in Athens, Greece and has lived in Los Angeles since 1973.
Mr. Polyzoides' distinguished career covers the areas of architectural and urban design education, design, and theory. His professional experience spans institutional and civic buildings, historic rehabilitation, commercial projects, housing, campus planning, and urban design. From 1973 until 1997, he was Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California. He has also been Visiting Professor at several prestigious schools of architecture. From 1983 through 1990, he was on the Advisory Board for the School of Architecture at Princeton University.
He is a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and the current Chairman of the Board of Directors. CNU, a national association of over 2,000 architects, planners, engineers, developers, government officials and environmentalists, works toward the restoration of existing urban centers, the reconfiguration of suburbs, and the protection of nature within an integrated regional structure. Mr. Polyzoides is a popular speaker on the subjects of new urbanism and sustainability. Most recently, he participated in the 4th Annual National Symposium on New Urbanism on "Regional, Environmental, Social and Architectural Justice" at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Design responsibility is shared between the two principals of Moule & Polyzoides. Mr. Polyzoides' recent projects include a Master Plan for the Alvarado Transportation Project Area consisting of infill housing and revitalization of 12 blocks in Downtown Albuquerque, NM; a new Master Plan for Downtown Los Alamos, NM; a comprehensive Master Plan for Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA: and a Mixed-Use Transit-Oriented Development for a new Metro Blue Line station in Pasadena, CA. As principal designer for the new town of Civano in Arizona, a landmark model of sustainability in the Southwest, he continues to oversee the progress of that development as it matures.
Mr. Polyzoides' writing frequently appears in both national and international journals. He is the author of two books, Los Angeles Courtyard Housing: A Typological Analysis and R.M. Schindler, Architect. His research has produced four distinguished exhibitions and exhibition catalogs: "Caltech: 1910-1950," "Myron Hunt: 1868-1952," "Wallace Neff," and "Johnson, Kaufmann & Coate."