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, Arizona, Florida and New Mexico. He was born in Athens, Greece and has lived in Los Angeles since 1973.

Mr. Polyzoides’ prominent career covers the areas of architectural and urban design education, design and execution, and theory. His professional experience spans educational, 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 and has 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, a national organization reforming suburban sprawl, and is a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Polyzoides is a popular speaker on the subjects of new urbanism, transit-oriented development, mixed use development, housing and sustainability and is a frequent guest at academic symposia.

With his partner, Elizabeth Moule, he founded Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists in 1982. Across the nation and around the world, Mr. Polyzoides has led projects in New Jersey, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Guatamala, Mexico, Anguilla, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia. His recent projects include the 56,000-acre Altrisco project for SunCal in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the new extension of Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. Other current projects include master plans for downtown Santa Ana and downtown Whittier, California and he has recently completed the East Downtown Albuquerque Master Plan, as well as two Downtown Specific Plans for mixed-use neighborhoods and districts in Southern California: Downtown Ventura and Downtown Newhall. Following the ravages of Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi, Mr. Polyzoides was asked by Governor Haley Barbour to participate in a national charrette to provide emergency urban design and planning services to the communities that were devastated and to lead the reconstruction efforts of Biloxi.

He has led various Traditional Neighborhood Developments, such as the Mercado Neighborhood-Rio Nuevo in Tucson, Arizona, and Parklands, a new neighborhood in Ventura, California. He designed a revitalization plan for reuse of the historic Sears Building in East Los Angeles as the catalyst for a new mixed-use neighborhood. He has designed two Mixed-Use Transit-Oriented Developments along Southern California’s Gold Line: Del Mar Station in Pasadena and Mission Station in South Pasadena. Mr. Polyzoides has also designed several courtyard housing developments with various densities, such as Seven Fountains in West Hollywood, Granada Court in Pasadena, and The Cordoba in Santa Ana, California.

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.” Stefanos Polyzoides is a Seaside Award recipient, the nation’s most prestigious award in the field of urbanism.