Stefan Al is a Dutch Architect and City Planner, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has trained, taught and worked in The Netherlands, Spain, France, England, as well as California.

Projects he worked on include the 2,000 feet high TV-tower in Guangzhou, which will be the centerpiece of the Asian Games in 2010. He also worked for the World Heritage Center of UNESCO on the preservation of natural and cultural heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean. At Berkeley he is the lead designer of the 11,000 acre masterplan of Nanocity, a new planned city in India, which is a dense, livable and eco-friendly I.T. development that can serve as a model for other developments in the region.

Stefan has taught at various instututions, such as the Architectural Association in London, where he was a tutor for the Summer Digital Design Lab. At UC Berkeley he has created and taught the course ‘Introduction to Environmental Design’, and he was the graduate student instructor of the courses ‘A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism’, ‘Urbanization in Developing Countries’, ‘Global Poverty’, and ‘International Housing’.

He has completed a Master in Architectural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and a Master of Science in Architecture at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, with honorable distinction. He also studied at the ETSAB in Barcelona. Currently, he is finishing his doctoral dissertation at the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California in Berkeley.

His awards include an honorable distinction from Delft University of Technology and a Talent Award from the Netherlands Ministry of Education. At UC Berkeley he was the recipient of the Eisner Award for creativity and the Harvey S. Perloff Fellowship. Research and study grants he received were from the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation, the VSB Foundation, and the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.