Stefanos Polyzoides is one of the founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism and a principal of Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists in Pasadena, California.

He was born in Athens, Greece received his B.A. and M.Arch. from Princeton University and has lived in Southern California since 1973. He is a registered architect in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida and Texas. Mr. Polyzoides has worked on the practice, theory and education of architecture and urban­ism for thirty years.

The recent projects of Moule & Polyzoides have been in the service of both the private and public sectors. As advocates for sustainable development, Moule & Polyzoides has recently produced a variety of exemplary green buildings for university and institutional clients and is in the forefront of New Urbanist greenfield and brownfield design in the United States.

Mr Polyzoides is a professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Southern California and has written extensively in both book and article form. With his partner, Liz Moule, and Hank Dittmar, he is the coauthor of the ‘Canons of Sustainable Development,’ an addendum to the Charter of the New Urbanism.