Stefanos Polyzoides and Peter Tolkin will explore the architectural design responses through Pasadena’s history and the opportunities now and in the future during the next General Plan Speaker Series event Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 6:30 p.m. at the PCC Community Education Center, 3035 E. Foothill Blvd. 

 A nationally renowned architect based in Pasadena, Polyzoides’s work locally has ranged from the design and development of courtyard housing to mixed-use projects at Metro Gold Line stations to proposed design guidelines for neighborhood commercial and multifamily residential zoning districts.  In addition to co-authoring a singular study of courtyard housing in the region, he has been responsible for exhibitions and catalogs about the work of key Pasadena-area architects and architecture, including Myron Hunt, Wallace Neff, and Caltech.  With his partner in Moule &  Polyzoides, Elizabeth Moule, he is a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism. 

Tolkin is an award-winning Pasadena architect whose early work focused on Old Pasadena; later projects have included single-family homes, multifamily housing, an award-winning design for linking bike riders and transit in Pasadena, and the Saladang Song building.  He also is the organizer of an upcoming series of panel discussions at Armory Center for the Arts titled “Art & Architecture in Pasadena: Directions and Controversies” three Saturday afternoons beginning Oct. 24.

 Steve Preston, interim San Gabriel city manager and a Pasadena resident, will moderate the discussion followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. 

Future General Plan Speaker Series events include “Sharing Water, Energy and Other Resources” on Oct. 28 and “Our Plans and the Marketplace” on Nov. 4.

The series is among many activities designed in preparation for updates to the Land Use, Mobility, and Open Space and Conservation Elements of Pasadena’s General Plan.

Other activities include MoveAbout Tours, community workshops, district workshops and a major General Plan open house on Nov. 14.

 For more information visit www.cityofpasadena.net/generalplan or call (626) 744-4009.

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