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Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists is an architecture and urban planning firm based out of Pasadena, CA founded in 1990 by partners Elizabeth Moule & Stefanos Polyzoides.

Background

According to the company website, the firm "was founded in 1990 to address the emerging challenge of our time: creating timeless and sustainable buildings, campuses, neighborhoods and towns for current and future generations."[1]

The firm's Pasadena office is located in the former office of Wallace Neff and Frederick Ruppel which Neff designed in the late 1920's and Moule & Polyzoides rehabilitated in 1998, installing new plumbing, mechanical, electrical and lighting systems.[2]

Principles

In 1991, firm partners Elizabeth Moule and Stefanos Polyzoides were called upon by the Local Government Commission to develop a set of community principles for land use planning along with a panel of architects, called the Ahwahnee Principles[3].

Building upon their work for the LGC, Moule and Polyzoides (along with Peter Calthorpe, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Daniel Solomon) co-founded the Chicago-based Congress for the New Urbanism in 1993 to further urbanist efforts domestically and abroad. Since its founding, the CNU has grown to more than 3,000 members, and is the leading international organization promoting New Urbanist design principles through education and advocacy in legislation.[4]

Staff

Elizabeth Moule, Partner

  • Co-authored the CNU’s Canons of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism[5]
  • Known as a national leader in environmental sustainability and created one of the greenest buildings in the world, the Robert Redford Building for the Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Contributing Author: The Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Dwell and Residential Architect, The Nikkei Shimbun, The Los Angeles Forum, The Charter for the New Urbanism and The Seaside Tapes.

Stefanos Polyzoides, Partner

  • Noted as the “Godfather of New Urbanism” [6].
  • Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California (1973-1997)
  • Author: Los Angeles Courtyard Housing: A Typological Analysis (1977), The Plazas of New Mexico (2012), and the author of R.M. Schindler, Architect (1982)

Vinayak Bharne, Director of Design

  • Adjunct Associate Professor of Urbanism at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and Heritage Conservation at the USC School of Architecture, and an Associated Faculty Member of the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Author: Zen Spaces & Neon Places: Reflections on Japanese Architecture and Urbanism (2014), The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms (2012), Re-Discovering the Hindu Temple: The Sacred Architecture and Urbanism of India (2012)

Notable Projects

  • Kalu Yala - A model sustainable community in the Republic of Panama
  • Playhouse Plaza - A 145,000-square foot mixed-use development located in Pasadena’s historic Playhouse District[8]
  • New College of Florida Master Plan - Sarasota, Florida, notable for its unique Master Plan Design Charrettes taking place over a week in 2005 involving students, alumni, administrators, professors, area residents, and local government staff members as well as architects, designers, and planners from Moule & Polyzoides, The Folsom Group, the Florida House Institute for Sustainable Development, Hall Planning & Engineering, and Biohabitats in a process to make long range suggestions for the campus layout, landscaping, architecture, and transportation corridors of the master plan for its campus.
  • The BLVD - A one-mile revitalized stretch of Lancaster Boulevard between 10th Street West and Sierra Highway in Lancaster, CA

References

 

  1. ^ http://www.mparchitects.com/site/about/introduction. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ^ http://www.traditionalbuildingportfolio.com/profiles/residential/asenseofplace.html. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. ^ http://www.lgc.org/about/ahwahnee/principles. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. ^ http://www.cnu.org/history. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  5. ^ http://www.cnu.org/canons. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  6. ^ http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Commission-approves-St-John-s-Seminary-5596802.php. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  7. ^ http://www.solaripedia.com/13/28/343/civano_community_school.html. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  8. ^ http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/retro_mixedusers_might_just_liven_up_pas_playhouse_district.php. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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