Stanley Saitowitz

{{short description|American designer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Stanley Saitowitz''' is an American designer. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1949.<ref name=db>{{cite web|url=https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/1478/|title=Saitowitz, Stanley|accessdate=May 17, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.archdaily.com/180652/contemporary-jewish-museum-presents-stanley-saitowitz-judaica/|author=Furuto, Alison|title=Contemporary Jewish Museum Presents Stanley Saitowitz: Judaica|date=November 3, 2011|journal=ArchDaily|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref>

He received his Bachelor of Architecture at the [[University of Witwatersrand]] in 1974. He received a Masters in Architecture from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1977.

Saitowitz is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and is Design Principal with Natoma Architects Inc. based in San Francisco, California.<ref name=db/>

Saitowitz is well-known and influential in the [[Bay area]] architecture scene.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Basulto, David|title=AD Interviews: Stanley Saitowitz|date=6 Aug 2009 |journal=ArchDaily|accessdate=18 May 2013|url=https://www.archdaily.com/31456}}</ref> He is known for his "monochromatic" and "machine-like" architecture, a "strident form of Modernism".<ref>{{cite web |author=Barmann, Jay C. |title=A guide to the work of Stanley Saitowitz, San Francisco's most polarizing designer|date=20 Apr 2020 |accessdate=26 Feb 2023|url=https://sf.curbed.com/2018/7/27/17507080/stanley-saitowitz-sf-architect-san-francisco-designer-octavia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802205944/https://sf.curbed.com/2018/7/27/17507080/stanley-saitowitz-sf-architect-san-francisco-designer-octavia|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 August 2019}}</ref> His design for the Beth Sholom Synagogue (2008) in San Francisco garnered international praise and awards, such as the High Commendation Award, Religion & Contemplation at the 2008 World Architecture Festival 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.saitowitz.com/awards/index.html|title=Natoma Architects Awards|accessdate=May 18, 2013}}</ref> At the same time, the Synagogue received critiques from local residents.<ref>{{cite web|title=New synagogue livens up Richmond District|author=John King|date=August 11, 2008|accessdate=May 18, 2013|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-synagogue-livens-up-Richmond-District-3200946.php}}</ref>

== Awards == * [[Harleston Parker Medal]] for his work on the [[New England Holocaust Memorial]] (1997) * His Transvaal House was named a National Monument by the Monuments Council in South Africa (1997)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://syr.edu/news/articles/2008/architecture-saitowitz-10-08.html|title=Internationally acclaimed architect Stanley Saitowitz to lecture at Syracuse Architecture|date=October 22, 2008|author=Elaine Wackerow}}</ref> * Finalist for [[National Design Awards|Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award]] (2006) * The [[Tampa Museum of Art]], designed by Saitowitz, won the American Architecture Award from Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/tampa-museum-of-art-wins-architecture-award/1196098|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911101457/http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/tampa-museum-of-art-wins-architecture-award/1196098|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 September 2012|title=Tampa Museum of Art wins architecture award|journal=Tampa Bay Times|date=October 10, 2011|accessdate=May 18, 2013|author=Lennie Bennett}}</ref> * 12th Sophia Gray Memorial Lecture Laureate (2000) <ref>{{Cite web |title=Sophia Gray Memorial Lecture |url=https://www.ufs.ac.za/natagri/departments-and-divisions/architecture-home/general/sophia-gray-memorial-lecture |access-date=2025-09-21 |website=www.ufs.ac.za}}</ref>

== Notable buildings designed by Saitowitz == * [[UCR/California Museum of Photography]] * [[New England Holocaust Memorial]], Boston, MA * [[Tampa Museum of Art]], Tampa, FL * [[Congregation Beth Sholom|Beth Sholom Synagogue]] in San Francisco, CA * Beth El Synagogue, La Jolla, CA * 8 Octavia, San Francisco, CA * Yerba Buena Lofts, San Francisco, CA *[[Oxbow School]], Napa, CA

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== Further reading == * {{cite book|title=Stanley Saitowitz|volume=33|author=Stanley Saitowitz|editor=Michael J. Bell|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|year=1996|isbn=9781885232038|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVAUMiegMnkC}}

== External links == * {{official website|http://www.saitowitz.com/}}

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