ROBERT A.M. STERN
BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS 1993–1998
Peter Morris Dixon [Editor]
Peter Morris Dixon [Editor]: ROBERT A.M. STERN: BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS 1993–1998. New York City: Monacelli Press, 1998. First edition. INSCRIBED with a drawing on half title page by Robert A. M. Stern. A near fine hard cover book in a very good dust jacket with minor shelf wear: the bottom of the spine is slightly rumpled. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
Inscription in Sharpie to half title page: “For / ––––––– /and the best / bookshop / anywhere. / Robert Stern / 1999 / Chicago” with a sketch of a house by Robert A. M. Stern.
8.75 x 11.25 hard cover book with 400 pages well-illustrated in color and black-and-white. From the publisher: In over thirty years of practice, Robert A. M. Stern has developed a distinctive architecture committed to the synthesis of tradition and innovation and, above all, to the creation and enhancement of a meaningful sense of place. Inspired by the legacy of great American architecture, his firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, has produced a wide variety of building types at differing scales in a range of stylistic vocabularies throughout the world.
This monograph, which follows volumes documenting Stern's practice in the years 1965–1980, 1981–1985, and 1987–1992, includes more than one hundred projects from the years 1993–1998. Also included in this volume are unbuilt projects and works in progress.
Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern (born May 23, 1939), is a New York City and New Haven based American architect, professor, and academic writer. He previously served as the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He is the founding partner of the architecture firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, often referred to as RAMSA.
Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Stern spent his earliest years with his parents in Manhattan. After 1940, they moved to Brooklyn, New York where Stern grew up. Stern received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1960 and a master's degree in architecture from Yale University in 1965. Stern has cited Vincent Scully and Philip Johnson as early mentors and influences.
Immediately after leaving Yale, Stern was employed as a curator by the Architectural League of New York, a job he gained through a connection with Philip Johnson. While at the League, he organized the second 40 Under 40 show, which featured the work of then-unknown architects Charles Moore, Robert Venturi, and Romaldo Giurgola, as well as his own work. Upon leaving the Architectural League, Stern worked as a designer in the office of Richard Meier in 1966. Three years later, he established Stern & Hagmann with a fellow student from his days at Yale, John S. Hagmann.In 1977 he founded its successor firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, also known as RAMSA. Stern continues to work for RAMSA today, and has indicated he does not plan to retire.
Stern has been dean of the Yale School of Architecture since 1998.Previously, he was professor at Columbia University, in the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He was also director of Columbia's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture from 1984 to 1988.
Stern is a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture, with a particular emphasis on urban context and the continuity of traditions. He may have been the first architect to use the term "postmodernism," but more recently he has used the phrase "Modern traditionalist" to describe his work. In 2011, Stern was honored with the renowned Driehaus Architecture Prize for his achievements in contemporary classical architecture.
Stern is known for his academic work concerning American architectural history. In 1986, he hosted “Pride of Place: Building the American Dream,” an eight-part documentary series which aired on PBS. The series featured Peter Eisenman, Leon Krier, Philip Johnson, Frank Gehry, and other notable architects. "Pride of Place" was well received by the public, although other architects disliked it. He has also written extensively about American architecture, especially that of New York City, having published five volumes about the city's architectural history, each focusing on a different decade or period.
Stern professes to be apolitical, but voted for George W. Bush before designing the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, a fact that helped him gain the commission. So fuck him. [Wikipedia]