Stefanos Polyzoides received his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude and Masters in Architecture from Princeton University. A registered architect in California, Arizona, Florida and New Mexico, he was born in Athens, Greece and has lived in Los Angeles since 1973.
Mr. Polyzoides’ career includes architecture and urbanism, design education and theory. His experience includes the design of educational, institutional, commercial and civic buildings, historic rehabilitation, 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, campus design 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, Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Guatemala, Mexico, Anguilla, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia, among other places.
Mr. Polyzoides’ experience also includes leadership in the design and planning of educational institutions and the urban districts associated with their campuses. He has completed significant projects for Occidental College, New College of Florida, UCLA, the Claremont Colleges and the University of Arizona. These projects have addressed the full range of design issues which colleges and universities face today. The breadth of this work includes entire campuses, campus precincts, the variety of building types found within campuses, and neighborhoods adjacent to campuses. This approach draws upon the full range of the firm’s capabilities, combing a deep knowledge of campus design with significant urbanist practice.
Mr. Polyzoides’ recent projects include River North in San Antonio, Texas, an extension of the Riverwalk, and master plans for downtown Santa Ana, downtown Paso Robles, and downtown Whittier, California. He has also completed the East Downtown Albuquerque Master Plan, as well as numerous Downtown Specific Plans for mixed-use neighborhoods and districts in Southern California, such as Downtown Ventura and Downtown Newhall.
He is the co-author of Los Angeles Courtyard Housing: A Typological Analysis, the forthcoming Plazas of New Mexico, and the author of 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, with his partner, is a Seaside Prize recipient, the nation’s most prestigious award in the field of urbanism.
