Stanley Saitowitz

I am interested in space, more than meaning, in the architecture of movement and flux, of time and event, rather than object and monument. I am interested in the emptiness that material constructs. I am interested in the invisible.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Stanley Saitowitz is emeritus professor of architecture and principal of Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc. In addition to his 30 years of teaching at the College of Environmental Design, Saitowitz has taught at numerous schools, including Harvard GSD, University of Oklahoma, UCLA, Rice, SCIARC, Cornell, Syracuse, and University of Texas at Austin. He has given more than 200 public lectures in the United States and abroad.

Saitowitz's first house was built in 1975, and together with Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc., he has completed numerous buildings and projects. These have been residential, commercial and institutional. He has designed houses, housing, master plans, offices, museums, libraries, wineries, synagogues, churches, commercial and residential interiors, memorials, urban landscapes and promenades. Among many awards, he's recieved the Transvaal House was declared a National Monument by the Monuments Council in South Africa in 1997, the New England Holocaust Memorial received the Henry Bacon Medal in 1998, and in 2006 he was a finalist for the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award given by Laura Bush at the White House. In 2024, he received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Environmental Design.

He's published three books, and his articles have appeared in many magazines and newspapers. Saitowitz's paintings, drawings, and models have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums.

Stanley Saitowitz: A House in Transvaal (1996)

Stanley Saitowitz: Architecture at Rice 33 (1994)

Geological Architecture