Moule & Polyzoides has an international reputation for design and architectural innovation and a strong track record demonstrated in over 100 completed projects. Our work has been published all over the world and has been showcased in various museum and university exhibitions. In addition, we have received numerous awards for excellence.

Awards | Publications | Exhibitions



AWARDS

2007 Planning Excellence for Best Practice
from the Los Angeles Section, American Planning Association
for the Downtown Newhall Specific Plan

2007 Merit Award for Excellence
in Planning for an Established Campus

from the Society for College and University Planning
and the American Institute of Architects
for the Occidental Master Plan

2006 American Institute of Architects Honor Award
from the AIA Pasadena & Foothill Chapter
for Mission Meridian Village

2006 Golden Nugget Award
from The Builder Magazine
for Mission Meridian Village

2006 Parkinson Spirit of Urbanism Award
awarded to the City of Pasadena by the USC School of Architecture
for Del Mar Station

2006 Tranny Award
from The California Transportation Foundation
for Mission Meridian Village

2006 Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Awards
for Mission Meridian Village and Mercado Neighborhood

2006 APA Award
the Best Use of Technology to Plan for Natural Disaster Recovery

for A Reconstruction Plan for Biloxi, Mississippi

2006 Classical Architecture & Classical America's
Arthur Ross Awards

for A Reconstruction Plan for Biloxi, MS

2005 Residential Architecture Design Award
Merit Award in MultiFamily category
for Seven Fountains

2004 Builders Choice Award
for Seven Fountains

2004 Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Award
for Robert Redford Building for NRDC

2004 Westside Prize Honor Award
for Seven Fountains

2004 Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Award
for Robert Redford Building for NRDC

2004 Pillars of the Industry Award
from the National Home Builders Association
for Seven Fountains

2003 Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Award
for Del Mar Station

2003 Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Award
for Doña Ana Plaza Reconstruction

2002 Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Award
for Seven Fountains

2002 New Mexico American Planning Association Chapter Award
for Doña Ana Plaza Reconstruction

2000 American Planning Association Focused Issue Planning Award
for Magnolia Avenue Corridor

1998 Seaside Prize from the Seaside Institute
for contributions to the quality and character of communities

1998 US Presidential Award
for Civano New Town

1997 American Contractors Association of Tucson Certification of Excellence Award
for Colonia de la Paz

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PUBLICATIONS FEATURING MOULE & POLYZOIDES

2008

"San Antonio Plans New Downtown District" in New Urban News, April/May 2008 | READ Article [PDF]

Wendy Broffman "Romancing the Courtyard" in Multihousing Professional, January/February 2008

John Morris Dixon Urban Spaces No.5. (New York: Visual Reference Publications, 2008) | ORDER Book

Keith Moskow, AIA Sustainable Facilities (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008) | ORDER Book

Ann Matesi "Building Housing Around Light Rail" in Professional Builder, January 2008


2007

"River North Could Be Very Urban And Hip" by Mike Greenberg in San Antonio Express-News, September 2007 | READ Article

Amanda Becker "Historic Pasadena Bungalows Get a New Lease on Life" in Los Angeles Business Journal, 12 February 2007
READ Article [PDF]

Francesca Lyman "How Green is My City" in Ms. Magazine,
Winter 2007 | READ Article [PDF]


2006

Janet Eastman "MISSION MERIDIAN: Going for the Gold Line" in Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2006 | READ Article [PDF]

Jillian Daley "City has a Vision for Southeast Visalia" in Visalia Times-Delta, 15 April 2006

Gary Scott "Preservation Project Nears Completion" in Pasadena Star News, 26 February 2006 | READ Article [PDF]

Craig Kellogg "The Case For Courtyards" in Interior Design, February 2006
READ Article


2005

Christopher Hawthorne "In the Rush to Rebuild, a House Divided" in Los Angeles Times, 04 December 2005 | READ Article [PDF]

Terry Pristin "Trading the Car for the Train" in New York Times, 02 November 2005 | READ Article [PDF]

Robin Pogrebin "Architects Ponder Rebuilding of Biloxi" in New York Times, 17 October 2005 | READ Article [PDF]

Richard Dymon "New College Welcomes Planner" in Bradenton Herald, 23 September 2005

Christopher Hawthorne "Courts with a New Spark" in Los Angeles Times, 15 September 2005 | READ Article [PDF]

Martha McDonald "Courtyard Housing" in Clem Labine's Period Homes magazine, September 2005, Volume 6, Number 5

"South Pasadena TOD fills up fast" in New Urban News magazine, September 2005, Volume 10, Number 6

"Polyzoides Offers a 'New Urbanist' Perspective on City & Regional Planning in L.A." in The Planning Report, Volume XVIII, No. 10, August 2005 | READ Article [PDF]

Sonya Geis "New from Old" in Pasadena Star News, 26 June 2005 | READ Article [PDF]

Thomas Whittingslow "Rio Nuevo: Reinventing Tucson" in Builder & Developer Magazine, June 2005

"Residential Architect Design Awards" in Residential Architect, May 2005 | READ Article [PDF]

Simmons Buntin "An Architecture of Place: An Interview with Stefanos Polyzoides" in Terrain.org, Issue No. 16, Spring/Summer 2005 | READ Article

"Eco-Friendly Buildings" on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, 15 April 2005 | VIEW broadcast

Mary Bender "Village Arising" in Pasadena Star News, 15 February 2005

Jeff Book "The Robert Redford Building" in Coastal Living, January 2005


2004

Simmons Buntin "Civano: The Dark and the Light" in Terrain.org, Issue No. 15, Fall/Winter 2004 | READ Article

Eugene Tsong "Breathing New Life Into Town" in Los Angeles Daily News, 04 December 2004

"Live & Times on KCET TV Channel 28, 30 November 2004 | READ Transcript

"Life & Times" on KCET TV Channel 28, 27 September 2004 | READ Transcript

Catesby Leigh "California Dreaming" in Princeton Alumni Weekly 15 September 2004 | READ Article

Edie Cohen "Superstar Treatment" in Interior Design June 2004 | READ Article

Roger Vincent "City Center for the Eastside?" in Los Angeles Times 19 June 2004 | READ Article

"Green Building Tour: Interview with Elizabeth Moule" on Public Radio Weekend 12 June 2004 | LISTEN to interview

Gloria Ohland "Brave New Cityscape" in LA Weekly 11-17 June 2004 | READ Article

Hilary Kaplan "The Star-Studded Opening of America's Greenest Building: NRDC Headquarters" in The Next American City, Issue 5 / 2004 | READ Article

"Readers Interview Stefanos Polyzoides" in PLANetizen 10 May 2004 | READ Article

Stefan Lovgren "California Office Building Named Greenest in U.S." in National Geographic News 24 May 2004 | READ Article

Sonya Geis "Arroyo Bungalow Rehab" in Pasadena Star News 14 April 2004

Richard Marshall and SHA Yongjie, editors Designing the American City (Shanghai: China Architecture and Building Press, 2004) | ORDER Book

Morris Newman "New Generation is Right on Track" in Los Angeles Times 08 February 2004

Miguel Bustillo "Building on Green Principles" in Los Angeles Times 26 January 2004

Richard Horgan "Pasadena Gets It" in California Construction January 2004 | READ article


2003

Laura Coleman "Take Another Ride on the 'Atchinson, Topeka and the Santa Fe" in California Real Estate Journal 8 December 2003

Sara Hiatt "Building Blocks: East Downtown Shapes Up" in Alibi 20-26 November 2003

Mary McNamara "Courtyard Housing: Mythology Come to Life" in Los Angeles Times 25 November 2003

Amanda Griscom "Who's the Greenest of Them All?" in Grist Magazine 25 November 2003

Dan Whitcomb "Rain Flushes Toilets in Robert Redford Building" for Reuters 14 November 2003

Associated Press "Resources Building Named for Redford" 14 November 2003

Christopher Hawthorne "A Building So Green, It's Platinum" in New York Times 13 November 2003

Bob Pool "Group Ordered New Offices Sunny Side Up" in Los Angeles Times 13 November 2003

"Which Way LA?" with Warren Olney on KCRW 89.9fm, 13 November 2003 | LISTEN to program

Martha Groves "Chic Street Is Taking Off the Grunge" in Los Angeles Times, 12 August 2003

Mark Alden Branch "Smart Growth?" in Architecture magazine, July 2003

Sam Hall Kaplan "The City Observed: Transit Villages" on KCRW 89.9fm, 18 June 2003

Paulette Marie Singley "Delineating the City" in LA Architect magazine, March/April 2003

Diane Dorney, editor CNU Council Report III/IV: On Streets / On Codes (Gaithersburg: The Town Paper Press, 2003) | ORDER Magazine

Mary Bender, "Developers Hope Gold Line a Gold Mine" in Pasadena Star News, 12 April 2003

Stephanie Vierra, "Solar Renewal" in Archi-Tech magazine, March/April 2003, Volume 6, Number 2

Mary Schubert "Rail Transit Village Breaks Ground" in Pasadena Star News, 21 February 2003

Roger Vincent "Transit Village Going Up Near Rail Stop" in Los Angeles Times, 21 February 2003


2002

Philip Langdon "Albuquerque Booms in New Urban Fashion" in New Urban News magazine, December 2002, Volume 7, Number 8

Gary Scott "Not Too Far Gone" in Pasadena Star News, 15 November 2002

Laurence Aurbach "Hollywood Live-Works Use Courtyard Model" in The Town Paper magazine, Summer 2002, Volume 4, Number 3 | READ Article

Morris Newman "Courtyard Housing Revival" in Architecture Week, Number 107, 25 July 2002

"It Takes a Village" in Pasadena Weekly, 25 July 2002

Morris Newman "The Case Against Standardization" in the Forum Issue 3 : Rethinking Housing - Prototypes and Proposals, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Online Newsletter, Spring 2002

Diane Dorney, editor CNU Council Report II: Case Studies in New Urban Infill Development (Gaithersburg: The Town Paper Press, 2002) | ORDER Magazine

Todd Bressi, editor The Seaside Debates (New York: Rizzoli, 2002) | ORDER Book


2001

Mary Melton "Open House" in Los Angeles magazine, October 2001, Volume 46, Number 10

"Sustainable building employs urban principles" in New Urban News magazine, September 2001, Volume 6, Number 6

James S Russell "True Believer" in Grid magazine, July/August 2001

"Albuquerque's downtown sees rapid turnaround" in New Urban News magazine, July/August 2001, Volume 6, Number 5

Susan Salter Reynolds "The Planners Who Disdain Style" in Los Angeles Times, Thursday, 4 January 2001

Diane Dorney, editor CNU Council Report I: Eight New Urban Towns (Gaithersburg: The Town Paper Press, 2001) | ORDER Magazine

John A. Dutton New American Urbanism: Re-forming the Suburban Metropolis (Skira, 2001) | ORDER Book


2000

Elizabeth Moule "Q & A: Is there room for modernism?" in Dwell magazine, December 2000, Volume 1, Number 2

Dynamic City (Brussels: Fondation pour l’Architecture, Skira/Seuil, 2000)

"The Changing Face of America: The Natural History of Sprawl" NPR Morning Edition, 26 July 2000 | LISTEN

Todd Bressi "Urbanism Downtown: Strategies for Albuquerque and Milwaukee" in Places magazine, Spring 2000, Volume 13, Number 2

Harald Bodenschatz and Harald Kegler "Stadtebaureform auf Amerikanisch: Projekte des New Urbanism" StadtBauwelt magazine, 31 March 2000

Lawrence W. Cheek "New Urbanism Sees Green" in Architecture magazine March 2000, Volume 89, Number 3

Barbara Flanagan "Building the New Hometown" in This Old House magazine, January/February 2000, Number 35


1999

Nancy D. Holt "An Innovative Project For Revitalizing Albuquerque" in Wall Street Journal, Wednesday 29 Septemeber 1999

"Un-Sprawl Case Study: Community of Civano in Tucson Arizona" in Terrain webzine, Issue Number 5, Autumn 1999 | READ Article

David Wann "Deficiencies in Suburban Design: A Video Interview with Elizabeth Moule" in Terrain Webzine, Issue Number 4, Summer 1999 | READ Article


1998

James Howard Kunstler Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century (New York: Touchstone Books, 1998) | ORDER Book


1997

Earl Foell "The Many Flavors of U.S. Architecture" in Christian Science Monitor 9, no. 2. Oct. 30, 1997.

James Steele Sustainable Architecture: Principles, Paradigms and Case Studies (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997)


1995

Donald Canty "Defining the New Urbanism" in Builder Magazine (January 1995): 219-224.

Clifford A. Pearson "Books" in Architectural Record, 18 New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Philip Langdon "The Urbanist's Reward" in Progressive Architecture Magazine, Volume 76, Number 8 (August 1995): 82-89.


1994

"The New Urbanism, the Newer and the Old" in Places Magazine Volumne 9, Number 2 (1994): 91-92.

Elizabeth A.T. Smith, editor Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1994)


1993

James Steele Los Angeles Architecture: The Contemporary Condition (London: Phaidon Press, 1993) | ORDER Book

Peter Katz The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community (New York: McGraw Hill, 1993) | ORDER Book


1992

Peter Deveraux "Playa Vista: An Opportunity for a New Urbanism in Los Angeles" in L.A. Architect (1992): 14.


1980s

"Restoring a Historic Schindler House in Los Angeles" in Architectural Digest Magazine, April 1988: 28-31, 62.April 1988.

Robert Winter "The Gartz Court: Home Again" in Arts and Architecture Magazine, Volume 4, Number 2 (1985): 94-99.

Z.A. Kaparthy "Courtyard Housing [book review]" in Landscape Magazine Volume 27, Number 1 (1983): 16-17.

David Gebhard "Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles: A Typological Study by Stefanos Polyzoides, Roger Sherwood, James Tice [book review]" in Society of Architectural Historians Journal 42, no. 2 (1983): 189-190.

Esther McCoy "Re: 'Five Houses of R.M. Schindler'" in Architecture and Urbanism Magazine, Volume 82, Number 9 (1977): 134-135.

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EXHIBITIONS FEATURING MOULE & POLYZOIDES

"Terms of Engagement: Urban Design in Greater Los Angeles at the Millenium" at California State University, Los Angeles, 2001

"The Other Modern or The Traditional City and Its Architecture in the 20th Century" at Bologna, April-July 2000; Washington D.C., Spring 2001

"What Architecture for Dwelling in the Third Millenium" at Universita di Napoli. 1999

"100 x 100" at Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles. 1995

"Urban Revisions" at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, Montreal, Berkeley. 1994

"Women in Architecture" at The Energy Center, San Francisco. 1993

"Recent Work" at Lindhurst Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. 1992

"LA x LA Exhibition" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California. 1982

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EXHIBITIONS BY MOULE & POLYZOIDES

"Making the Eternal New" at SCI-Arc Kappe Library, Los Angeles, 2006.

"The Third Los Angeles: The Creation of Downtown LA, 1900–1939" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 1994.

"Kaufmann, Coate, Johnson and the Triumph of Architecture in Southern California," at the Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California, 1992.

"Wallace Neff and the Romance of Regional Architecture," at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1989.

"Myron Hunt, Architect of the Public Realm," at Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

"Palmanova, Italy Project," Venice Biennale Exhibition, Venice, Italy, 1984.

"The Architecture of RM Schindler," at the Ministerio de Obras Publicas Gallery, Madrid; Colegio de Arquitectos, Barcelona; Schindler House Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Museum of Architecture, Amsterdam, 1983–84.

"Caltech and the Search for Regional Architecture," at Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 1983.

"The Arroyo Bridge Restoration on the UCLA Campus," School of Architecture Gallery, UCLA, Westwood, California, 1982.