Stanley Saitowitz

• UCR/California Museum of Photography • New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston, MA • Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL • 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

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. Saitowitz is well-known and influential in the Bay area architecture scene. He is known for his "monochromatic" and "machine-like" architecture, a "strident form of Modernism". 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. At the same time, the Synagogue received critiques from local residents.

Stanley Saitowitz studied at University of the Witwatersrand and University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with University of California, Berkeley. Works named in the authority record are New England Holocaust Memorial. Work by Stanley Saitowitz is recorded in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Berlinische Galerie.

• 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) • Finalist for 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. • 12th Sophia Gray Memorial Lecture Laureate (2000)