Stan Allen is an architect and was George Dutton ’27 Professor of Architecture at Princeton University from 2002 – 2025. In 1991, he established an independent practice as an architect, and since that time has pursued parallel careers as an educator, writer and architect. His practice SAA/Stan Allen Architect has realized buildings and urban projects in the United States, South America and Asia. In 2016 he was one of 12 architects chosen to represent the United States in the American Pavilion at the XV Venice Biennale.

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.

In 2009 he received the John Q. Hejduk Award, and an Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  In 2011, Allen was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows and in 2012 inducted into the National Academy of Design.  The retrospective exhibition “Building with Writing” took place at the Princeton School of Architecture in the spring of 2025, and will travel to the Chicago Architecture Biennial in September.