Stan Allen holds degrees from Brown University, The Cooper Union and Princeton. In 1991, after working for Richard Meier in New York and Rafael Moneo in Madrid, he established an independent architectural practice. Since that time he has pursued parallel careers as architect, educator and writer. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia and Princeton, and from 2002 – 2012 served as Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton.

After stepping down from the Princeton Deanship he relocated to a new studio in the Hudson River Valley. Current design work is focused on projects for artist clients and a more direct engagement with the natural landscape. This means a smaller office, and a more hand’s on way of working: both in the studio and on site. This recent work builds on his longstanding engagement with landscape and ecology; it offers an alternative way of understanding the relationship between architecture and landscape, now through the lens of the American vernacular and a sense of local history.

Selected
Awards

2017
– “Make New History” Chicago Biennial

2016
– “The Architectural Imagination” United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

2012
– National Gold Award for Architecture in 2012 in Taiwan (Taichung Infobox)
– FIABCI-Taiwan Excellence Award (Taichung Infobox)

2011
– P/A Award for Taichung Info Box
– AIA Award (New York City Chapter) for Taiching InfoBox
– AIA Award (New York State) for Taiching InfoBox
– AIA Award (Tri-State Region) for Taiching InfoBox

2010
– AIA Award for Salim Publishing House, Paju Book City, Korea

2009
– AIA Award for CCV Chapel
– Academy Award in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters
– John Q. Hejduk Award, Cooper Union Alumni Association
– P/A Award for Taipei Waterfront

2008
— Faith and Form Award for CCV Chapel

2002
– President’s Citation for Exceptional Contributions to Architecture
– The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY

1993
– Emerging Voices, Architectural League of New York

1988
– Winner, Young Architect’s Forum, The Architectural League of New York

1984
– Second Prize, A+U/Shinkenchiku Design Competition

1982
– Honorable Mention, Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition

Publications

– Situated Objects
Buildings and projects by Stan Allen; texts by Stan Allen, Helen Thomas and Jesús Vassallo, (Zurich, Park Books), 2020

– Stan Allen: Four Projects
Benjamin Wilke, Editor, Sourcebooks in Architecture, (San Francisco, Knowlton School of Architecture and ORO Publishers) 2017

– Landform Building: Architecture’s New Terrain
Co-Edited with Marc McQuade; Lars Müller in 2011

Landform Building was reviewed in: The Architect’s Newspaper (New York), Arquine (Mexico City) Revista Aquitectos CSCAC, Madrid), Arquitectura Via (Madrid) Detail (Munich), German Architects (Stuttgart), RAIS (Scotland), Surface (New York), among others. Landform Building was a Finalist at the 2012 FILAF (International Art Book and Film Festival), Perpignan, France and a winner of Design Observer’s”50 Books/50 covers” in 2012; selected as one of eight best design books by Architect Magazine, 2013

– Field Conditions Revisited
Exhibition Catalog, texts by Jeffery Kipnis and Sanford Kwinter.EisBox Projects, Brooklyn, 2010

– Practice: Architecture, Techniques and Representation
Collected Essays by Stan Allen. G+B Arts International: “Critical Voices” Series, 2000. Revised and expanded Second Edition published by Routledge, 2008

– Stan Allen Architect: Points + Lines
Projects and Built Works by Stan Allen 1990-1997. Introduction by K. Michael Hays; postscript by R.E. Somol. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999; Second Printing, 2004; Third Printing 2012

– Colossal Urbanism: Projects for New York and Tokyo
Selected Studio Projects: Stan Allen, Studio Critic, 1993-95. Columbia Books on Architecture: “Studio Works” series, New York, 1997

As Series Editor:

The SANAA Studios – Learning from Japan: Single Story Urbanism
Edited by Florian Idenburg; Lars Müller, 2008

Luis M. Mansilla + Emilio Tuñón – From Rules to Constraints
Edited by Giancarlo Valle. With contributions by Stan Allen, Enrique Walker, Sarah Whiting and Augustin Perez Rubio, photographs by Dean Kaufmann, Luis Asín, and Luis Baylón

David Adjaye – Authoring: Re-placing Art and Architecture
Edited by Marc McQuade. With contributions by David Adjaye, Stan Allen, Alex Coles, Teresita Fernández, Dave Hickey, Sanford Kwinter, Jorge Pardo, and Matthew Ritchie

Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature
Edited by Jessie Turnbull, Princeton Architectural Press, 2012 (Kassler Lecture, Princeton SoA, 2009)

Buckminster Fuller: World Man
Edited by Daniel Lopez-Perez, Princeton Architectural Press, 2013. (Inaugural Kassler Lecture, 1966)

Situated Objects

Buildings and Projects by Stan Allen, Photographs by Scott Benedict

Situated Objects is a collection of drawings and photographs documenting work realized by Stan Allen since 2012: a series of buildings and projects for rural sites that address questions of nature, the ex-urban landscape, design process and building technique. The drawings, photographs and texts collected here reflect on the relationship between architecture and landscape at a time when human impact on climate may have reached a tipping point.

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Situated Objects

Buildings and Projects by Stan Allen, Photographs by Scott Benedict

Situated Objects is a collection of drawings and photographs documenting work realized by Stan Allen since 2012: a series of buildings and projects for rural sites that address questions of nature, the ex-urban landscape, design process and building technique. The drawings, photographs and texts collected here reflect on the relationship between architecture and landscape at a time when human impact on climate may have reached a tipping point.

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Situated Objects

Buildings and Projects by Stan Allen, Photographs by Scott Benedict

Situated Objects is a collection of drawings and photographs documenting work realized by Stan Allen since 2012: a series of buildings and projects for rural sites that address questions of nature, the ex-urban landscape, design process and building technique. The drawings, photographs and texts collected here reflect on the relationship between architecture and landscape at a time when human impact on climate may have reached a tipping point.

Order Here

Situated Objects

Buildings and Projects by Stan Allen, Photographs by Scott Benedict

Situated Objects is a collection of drawings and photographs documenting work realized by Stan Allen since 2012: a series of buildings and projects for rural sites that address questions of nature, the ex-urban landscape, design process and building technique. The drawings, photographs and texts collected here reflect on the relationship between architecture and landscape at a time when human impact on climate may have reached a tipping point.

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Stan Allen: Four Projects

Benjamin Wilke, Editor, Sourcebooks in Architecture, Knowlton School of Architecture and ORO Publishers

2017

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Stan Allen: Four Projects

Benjamin Wilke, Editor, Sourcebooks in Architecture, Knowlton School of Architecture and ORO Publishers

2017

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Stan Allen: Four Projects

Benjamin Wilke, Editor, Sourcebooks in Architecture, Knowlton School of Architecture and ORO Publishers

2017

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Landform Building: Architecture’s New Terrain

Co-Edited with Marc McQuade

Published by Lars Müller in 2011, based on a conference at Princeton SoA organized by Stan Allen in 2009

(Landform Building is sold out)

Landform Building: Architecture’s New Terrain

Co-Edited with Marc McQuade

Published by Lars Müller in 2011, based on a conference at Princeton SoA organized by Stan Allen in 2009

(Landform Building is sold out)

Forces of Nature

Jessie Turnbull, Editor

Kassler Lecture Series, Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, Publisher 2012

Stan Allen, Series Editor

 World Man

Daniel López-Pérez, Editor

Kassler Lecture Series, Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, Publisher 2014

Stan Allen, Series Editor

Field Conditions revisited

Exhibition Catalog, texts by Jeffery Kipnis and Sanford Kwinter

EisBox Projects, Brooklyn, 2010

(out of print)

Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation

Collected Essays by Stan Allen

G+B Arts : “Critical Voices” Series, 2000; Revised and expanded second edition, Routledge, 2008

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Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation

Collected Essays by Stan Allen

G+B Arts : “Critical Voices” Series, 2000; Revised and expanded second edition, Routledge, 2008

Order Here

Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation

Collected Essays by Stan Allen

G+B Arts : “Critical Voices” Series, 2000; Revised and expanded second edition, Routledge, 2008

Order Here

Stan Allen Architect: Points + Lines

Projects and Built Works by Stan Allen, 1990-1997

Introduction by K. Michael Hays; postscript by R.E. Somol. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999; Second Printing, 2004; Third Printing 2012

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