Stan Allen is an architect, writer and educator. He served as Dean of the Princeton School of Architecture between 2002-2012, and is currently teaching at The Cooper Union and the Harvard GSD. His practice Stan Allen Architect has realized buildings and urban projects in the United States, South America and Asia, and more recently, a series of houses and artist studios in New York’s Hudson River Valley. In 2009 he received the John Q. Hejduk Award, and an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His architectural work is published in Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City and his essays in Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation. The edited volume Landform Building: Architecture’s New Terrain was published by Lars Müller in 2011, and his most recent book is Situated Objects, published by Park Books in 2021.