Alan Plattus is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Yale University School of Architecture. He has an independent practice as an urban design consultant and has lectured across the country and abroad on urban history and architectural theory. He also founded and directs the Yale Urban Design Workshop, a community design center based at the School of Architecture that has pursued practice-based research on the form and function of neighborhoods, towns and regions, and undertaken civic design projects in cities and towns throughout Connecticut.
Professor Plattus teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses at the Yale School of Architecture, where he was Associate Dean of the School for ten years. He also directs the School’s China Studio, a three-way collaboration between Yale, Tongji University in Shanghai and the University of Hong Kong.