Robert A. M. Stern

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Robert A. M. Stern
30 Park Place, Pauli Murray College and Benjamin Franklin College
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Robert Arthur Morton Stern (born May 23, 1939) is a New York City–based architect, educator, and author. He is the founding partner of the architecture firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, also known as RAMSA. From 1998 to 2016, he was the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

His firm's major works include the classically styled New York apartment building,

Comcast Center skyscraper in Philadelphia.[1] In 2011, Stern was honored with the Driehaus Architecture Prize for his achievements in contemporary classical architecture. Schwarzman College was designed by Stern; the 200,000 square foot campus houses one of the most advanced higher-education facilities in the world and is one of the first LEED
Gold-certified academic building in China.

Early life and education

Born in the

Philip Johnson as early mentors and influences.[4]

Career

After graduating from Yale, Stern worked as a curator for the

Robert A.M. Stern Architects, now known as RAMSA.[6]
Stern remains a partner at RAMSA, and has indicated he has no plans to retire.

Educator

Stern was the dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1998 to 2016, and has continued to teach there since the end of his tenure.[7] Previously, he taught at Columbia University, in the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and from 1984 to 1988 was the director of Columbia's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.[7]

Other activities

A prolific writer, Stern has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous books about architecture, including five volumes about New York City's architectural history, each focusing on a different period. In 1986, he hosted "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream", an eight-part documentary series which aired on PBS. The series featured

Leon Krier, Philip Johnson, Frank Gehry and other notable architects. "Pride of Place" was well received by the public, although some architects disliked it.[8]

Work

Main article: List of works by Robert A.M. Stern
Comcast Center, in Philadelphia

Many of Stern's early works were private houses in the

Walt Disney Company.[9][10]

Stern is now better known for his large-scale condominium and apartment building projects in New York City, which include 20 East End Avenue, The Chatham, The Brompton and 15 Central Park West. The latter was, at the time of its completion, one of the most financially successful apartment buildings ever constructed, with sales totaling $2 billion.[11]

Stern has designed some of the tallest structures in the United States, including the glass-clad Comcast Center, the second tallest building in both

30 Park Place, which will be among the tallest buildings in the city and the United States when complete.[14][15][16] In 2017 RAMSA completed a major addition to the campus of Yale University, with two new residential colleges, Pauli Murray College and Benjamin Franklin College, both designed in a Collegiate Gothic style.[17]

Style

In the 1970s, and early 1980s, Stern developed a reputation as a postmodern architect for integrating classical elements into his designs for contemporary buildings,[18] but in the mid-1980s, his work became more traditional, more in keeping with the then emerging New Classical architectural movement.[19] Stern, however, has rejected such characterizations, arguing that his projects draw on vernacular context and local traditions.[20] In recent years, the work of Stern's office has ranged from traditional to modernist, depending on the building type and project location, and is best characterized as eclectic and contextual.

Notable projects

Personal life

Stern owns an apartment in The Chatham, a building he designed in New York City.[21] In 1966, he married photographer Lynn Gimbel Solinger, the daughter of David Solinger and the granddaughter of Bernard Gimbel, a marriage that ended by divorce in 1977.[22][23] They had one son, Nicholas S. G. Stern, who manages the boutique construction and planning firm Stern Projects.[24][25]

Awards

Bibliography

A selection of books written and co-written by Stern:

  • New Directions in American Architecture (1969)
  • George Howe : Toward a Modern American Architecture (1975)
  • New York 1900 : Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890–1915 (1983)
  • New York 1930 : Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars (1987)
  • Modern Classicism (1988)
  • Pride of Place : Building the American Dream (1986)
  • New York 1960 : Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial (1997)
  • New York 1880 : Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age (1999)
  • New York 2000 : Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium (2006)
  • The Philip Johnson Tapes : Interviews by Robert A.M. Stern (2008)
  • Paradise Planned : The Garden Suburb and the Modern City (2013)
  • Pedagogy and Place: 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale (2016)
  • The New Residential Colleges at Yale: A Conversation Across Time (2018)

References

  1. ^ "Projects". May 12, 2015.
  2. ^ Michael Henry Adams (March 21, 2021). "MoMA wants to cancel Philip Johnson – many who knew him do not". The Guardian.
  3. ^ 1940 U.S. Census, 135 Ridge Street, New York, NY.
  4. ^ "Who are you Robert Stern?". Big Think. February 21, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  5. ^ Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, Vol. 9/10 (The MIT Press, 1965)
  6. ^
    ISBN 9780847804009
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  7. ^ a b "Robert A.M. Stern". Yale University. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  8. ^ Stern, Robert A. M. (November 1, 2005). "Robert A. M. Stern". Perspecta. 37. The MIT Press: 50–57.
  9. ^ Zukowsky, John. "Robert A. M. Stern (American architect)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
  10. ^ "Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA". RAMSA. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
  11. ^ Goldberger, Paul (September 1, 2008). "King of Central Park West". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
  12. ^ "Comcast Center". RAMSA. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
  13. ^ a b "Robert A.M. Stern". Driehaus Architecture Prize (Notre Dame University). 2011. Archived from the original on March 21, 2014. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
  14. ^ Wilson, Reid (December 28, 2015). "54-Story, 33-Unit Residential Tower Rises At 520 Park Avenue, Upper East Side". YIMBY. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  15. ^ Fedak, Nikolai (January 28, 2016). "Final Renderings for 220 Central Park South Show Slight Design Changes". YIMBY. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  16. ^ Fedak, Nikolai (October 7, 2013). "30 Park Place Set to Resume Construction". YIMBY. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  17. ^ "Construction Story: Building the New Colleges | The New Residential Colleges". newresidentialcolleges.yale.edu. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
  18. ^ Davidson, Justin (November 3, 2013). "Unfashionably Fashionable". New York. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  19. New York Times
    . Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  20. ^ Marino, Vivian (June 29, 2012). "The 30-Minute Interview: Robert A.M. Stern". Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  21. ^ Marino, Vivian (June 20, 2012). "The 30-Minute Interview Robert A.M. Stern". The New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
  22. ^ Everett-Haynes, La Monica (April 6, 2012). "Photography Center Acquires the Lynn Stern Archive". University of Arizona News.
  23. New York Times
    . September 14, 2003.
  24. ^ Marino, Vivian (November 5, 2013). "Nicholas S. G. Stern". The New York Times. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  25. ^ Alden, William (August 25, 2010). "Postmodern Son: Nicholas S. G. Stern Steps Out on His Own". Observer. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
  26. American Academy of Achievement
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  27. ^ "2006 Robert A.M. Stern". Philadelphia Center for Architecture. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  28. ^ amckeag (June 11, 2015). "Athena Medals". CNU. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
  29. ^ "Robert A.M. Stern". National Building Museum. November 12, 2008. Archived from the original on December 20, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  30. ^ Rybczynski, Witold (February 4, 2009). "That Dogma Won't Hunt". Slate. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  31. ^ "Landmarks Lion Award 2015-Pride of Lions". Historic Districts Council. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
  32. ^ "2019 Louis Auchincloss Prize Presentation & Reception". Museum of the City of New York.

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