Architect: Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern is a practicing architect, teacher and writer. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and received the AIA New York Chapter's Medal of Honor in 1984 and the Chapter's President's Award in 2001. As founder and senior partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, he personally directs the design of each of the firm's projects.

Mr. Stern is the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He was previously Professor of Architecture and Director of the Historic Preservation Program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Mr. Stern served from 1984 to 1988 as the first director of Columbia's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on both historical and contemporary topics in architecture. He is the author of several books, including New Directions in American Architecture (1969, revised 1977); George Howe: Toward a Modern American Architecture (1975); and Modern Classicism (1988). Mr. Stern's particular interest and experience in the development of New York City's architecture and urbanism can be seen in his books, New York 1900 (1983), co-authored with John Massengale and Gregory Gilmartin, New York 1930 (1987), co–authored with Thomas Mellins and Gregory Gilmartin, which was nominated for a National Book Award; New York 1960 (1995), and New York 1880 (1999), co-authored with Thomas Mellins and David Fishman.

Ten books on Mr. Stern's work have been published: Robert Stern, edited by David Dunster, with an introduction by Vincent Scully (1981); Robert A.M. Stern Buildings and Projects 1965–1980, edited by Peter Arnell and Ted Bickford (1981); Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1981– 1985, edited by Luis F. Rueda (1986); Robert A.M. Stern: Modemita e Tradizione, edited by Lucia Funari (1990), with an introduction by Paolo Portoghesi; The American Houses of Robert A.M. Stern, with an introduction by Clive Aslet (1991); Robert A.M. Stern: Selected Works (1991); Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1987–1992, edited by Elizabeth Kraft (1992) with an introduction by Vincent Scully; Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings (1996); Robert A.M. Stern: Houses (1997); and Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects1993–1998 (1998).

Mr. Stern's work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and universities and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1976, 1980, and 1996, he was among the architects selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. In 1986 Mr. Stern hosted "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream," an eight–part, eight–hour documentary television series that aired on the Public Broadcasting System. Mr. Stern served on the Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Company. Mr. Stern is a graduate of Columbia University (B.A., 1960) and Yale University (M. Architecture, 1965).

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