Stephen Harby is an architect, educator and watercolorist. He was associated with the late
Charles Moore’s architectural practices for eighteen years, where he directed a series of
civic and campus projects. He served as a Visiting Lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture where he directed the school’s program in Rome for over ten years.He currently maintains his own studio in Santa Monica from which he conceives and leads cultural and artistic tours for
small select groups to exotic destinations all over the world.
Mr. Harby is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions which include the Gabriel
Prize for the study of French Classical Architecture by the Western European
Architectural Foundation in 1996, a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in 1998, and
the Rome Prize in Architecture at the American Academy in 2000. As a watercolorist he
travels and sketches extensively and has exhibited his work at The Art Institute in Chicago, UCLA’s school of architecture, Hunter College in New York, and at the Judson Studios in Pasadena where he received the Award of Excellence from the American Society of Architectural
Illustrators in 2003. His work and teaching was the subject of a feature article in the
publication American Artist in May of 2009. [http://www.stephenharby.com/american_artist/]
Mr. Harby received his B.A. and M. Arch. from Yale University.