New Book
This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of the campus work of Robert A. M. Stern, arguably the most versatile of the “starchitects,” is an essential reference for architecture offices and libraries and an exceptionally handsome volume that will appeal to architecture afficionados. Architect and architectural historian Robert A. M. Stern has garnered prestigious commissions across America and throughout the world, but he is especially concerned with academic buildings and campus planning. In these projects his commitment to the principle of building in context is paramount as he seeks design solutions that at once historically sensitive and responsive to contemporary life.
About the Author: Robert A.M. Stern (M.Arch 1965), founder and senior partner in the firm of Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York City and dean of the School from 1998 until 2016, is the recipient of the 2017 Topaz Medallion, awarded jointly by the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in recognition of outstanding service to architectural education. Prior to becoming dean at Yale, Stern was a professor of architecture and director of the Preservation program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He served from 1984 to 1988 as the first director of Columbia’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. Stern 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 Pedagogy and Place: 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale and Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City. In 1986 Stern hosted Pride of Place: Building the American Dream, an eight-part, eight-hour documentary television series aired on PBS. In the fall of 2001, Stern lectured at Yale as the William Clyde DeVane Professor.
