Stanley Saitowitz

Partner & Design Principal
Natoma Architects, Inc.

Lecture Title: Frameworks

Monday, October 17, 2011
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Max Abramovitz Endowed lecture

STANLEY SAITOWITZ is an Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Principal of Stanley Saitowitz/ Natoma Architects Inc. in San Francisco. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and received his Bachelor of Architecture Degree at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1975, and his Masters in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. He began his practice in South Africa in 1975.

COMPLETED PROJECTS include the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, 1022 and 1028 Natoma Street in San Francisco, residences at Stinson Beach, Los Gatos, Napa, Almaden, Oakland, Berkeley, Marin, San Francisco, Tiburon, and St. Helena, Costa Rica, Nine Structures at Mill Race Park, Columbus Indiana, the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, the Capp Street Artist Workshop, the Quady Winery, the Auditorium at Wurster Hall, the San Francisco Embarcadero Promenade, the Coffee Pavilion at Stanford University, the Oxbow Art School in Napa, UCSF Mission Bay 23B Building, the Chinese Independent Baptist Church in Oakland, Third Street Lofts and Yerba Buena Lofts in San Francisco, 1234 Howard Street in San Francisco, Mizu Spa, Tan Bella Salon, Conduit Restaurant, Toast Restaurant, Beth El Synagogue in La Jolla, Beth Sholom Synagogue in San Francisco, and the Tampa Museum of Art.

CURRENT PROJECTS include Jack London Tower in Oakland, and in San Francisco: 555 Fulton Street, The Octavia Gateway, 616 20^th Street, 1527 Pine Street, 2100 Mission Street, 1875 Mission Street, 1029 Natoma Street, 130 Dore Street, 832 Sutter Street, 1087 Sutter Street, 19 Tehama Street. Uptown Case Western University Housing in Cleveland, Residences in Sonoma, Healdsburg, Oakland, Cloverdale, San Francisco and Toronto, Mississippi Restaurant, and the public areas of the W Hotel in San Francisco,

AWARDS include The American Institute of Architects 1998 Henry Bacon Medal for Memorial Architecture, and The Boston Society of Architects 1997 Harleston Parker Award. The book, 'Stanley Saitowitz - Architecture at Rice 33' published by Rice University, Houston, and Princeton Architectural Press, New York, received a 1998 AIA International Architecture Book Award for Monographs. In 2006, Stanley Saitowitz was a Finalist for the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award given by Laura Bush at the White House. The Transvaal House was declared a National Monument by the National Monuments Council of South Africa in 1997. Yerba Buena Lofts, the Lieff Residence, and Beth Sholom Synagogue won the AIA Best of the Bay Award in 3 consecutive years, 2003, 2004, and 2005. The UCSF Mission Bay Parking Structure, the Shaw Residence, and the First United Methodist Church and Residential Tower all won the AIA SF Awards in 2006. 1028 Natoma Residences and the Octavia Gateway Project won AIA SF Awards in 2007. The Bridge House, 1234 Howard Residences, Conduit Restaurant, Mizu Spa, and The Optical Centre won AIA SF Awards in 2008. Congregation Beth Sholom was awarded the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco Kirby Ward Fitzpatrick Prize for the Best New Building in San Francisco in 2008, the Faith and Form Magazine and The Interfaith Forum on Religion Art and Architecture 2008 Design Honor Award, a High Commendation for the Religion and Contemplation category in the World Architecture Festival Awards Barcelona 2008, Beth Sholom and 1234 Howard Street Unit 5 won AIA SF Awards in 2009, and Beth Sholom and Conduit Restaurant won AIA California Council Awards in 2009. Toast Restaurant and the Costa Rica House won AIA SF Awards in 2010, and the Tampa Museum of Art won both AIA SF and AIA Tampa Bay Awards in 2010

PUBLICATIONS include both local and international magazines, and the paintings, drawings and models exhibited in numerous galleries and museums. A traveling exhibition of his work 'Geological Architecture' curated by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in 1990, was shown in Southern California in Spring 1991, the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco in Summer 1991 and Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Spring 1992. Fabrications were shown at the Wexner Center for the Arts in January 1998. A book 'Stanley Saitowitz - Architecture at Rice 33' was published in Summer 1994. 'Stanley Saitowitz A House in the Transvaal' was published by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Princeton Architectural Press in Spring 1996. A monograph by Monacelli Press, New York, “Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects Inc. Buildings and Projects” was published in Winter 2005. A new monograph will be published in 2010.

EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE at the University of California, Berkeley, Saitowitz has taught at a number of schools including the GSD, Harvard University (Eliot Noyes Professor 1991/2), University of Okalahoma (Bruce Goff Professor, 1993), Southern California Institute of Architecture, UCLA, the University of Texas, the University of the Witwatersrand, Cornell, and Syracuse. He has lectured extensively in the USA and internationally.