Stanley Saitowitz on Models in Design

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 designed numerous residential, commercial and institutional buildings: houses, housing, master plans, offices, museums, libraries, wineries, synagogues, churches, commercial and residential interiors, memorials, urban landscapes, and promenades. His 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. In 2024, he received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Environmental Design.