Stan Allen is an architect working in New York and acting as the George Dutton '27 Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, where he served as Dean of the School of Architecture from 2002 to 2012. His architectural firm SAA/Stan Allen Architect has realized buildings and urban projects in the United States, South America, and Asia. Responding to the complexity of the modern city in creative ways, Stan Allen has developed an extensive catalogue of innovative design strategies, in particular looking at firled theory, landscape architecture, and ecology as models to revitalize the practices of urban design.