Moule & Polyzoides
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 a building previously occupied by Wallace Neff and Frederick Ruppel which Neff designed in the late 1920's and Moule & Polyzoides rehabilitated in 1998.[2]
Principles
In 1991, firm partners Elizabeth Moule and Stefanos Polyzoides were part of a group of architects and urbanists invited 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 advocacy 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, legislation, planning, and architectural practice.[4]
Notable Staff
Elizabeth Moule, Partner
- Co-author, CNU Charter
- 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
- Co-author, CNU Charter
- 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), R.M. Schindler, Architect (1982) and the forthcoming Between House and Tower: The Architecture of Density. He also led on the production of four distinguished exhibitions and exhibition catalogs on the architectural and urban history of Southern California: Caltech: 1910–1950; Myron Hunt: 1868–1952; Wallace Neff; and Johnson, Kaufmann & Coate.
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)
Chris Allaire, Director of Building
- Led work on the Academic and Administration Building for New College of Florida in Sarasota. The 34,000-square-foot, $8.48 million project was the first to be realized from the 2006 New College Master Plan, prepared by Moule & Polyzoides
- LEED Accredited Professional
Notable Projects
- Natural Resources Defense Council Robert Redford Building (2003) – The LEED Platinum certified Santa Monica, CA offices of the NRDC.
- Del Mar Station (2006) – An award winning transit-oriented development in Pasadena, CA
- Civano New Town (2001) – A sustainably planned neighborhood located near Tucson, Arizona [6]
- Playhouse Plaza (2014) - A 145,000-square foot mixed-use development located in Pasadena’s historic Playhouse District[7]
- New College of Florida Master Plan (2008) - Sarasota, Florida
- Mercado Neighborhood (2006) - A 14 acre district located near Downtown Tucson, Arizona recognized in 2006 with the CNU Charter Award[8][9]
- The BLVD (2010) - A one-mile revitalized stretch of Lancaster Boulevard between 10th Street West and Sierra Highway in Lancaster, CA
- Los Poblanos Inn (2011) - A transformation of Los Poblanos in Albuquerque, New Mexico into a country inn, conference center and sustainable farm which solved the complex preservation and development pressures that faced the historic structures.
External links
References
- ^ http://www.mparchitects.com/site/about/introduction.
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{{cite web}}: External link in|website=|title=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ http://www.cnu.org/canons.
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{{cite web}}: External link in|website=|title=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/retro_mixedusers_might_just_liven_up_pas_playhouse_district.php.
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