Robert A. M. Stern
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Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, (born May 23, 1939) is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1960 and a master's degree in architecture from Yale in 1965. After graduating from Yale, Stern worked as a designer in the office of Richard Meier in 1966, prior to forming the firm of Stern & Hagmann with a fellow student from his days at Yale, John S. Hagmann, in 1969. In 1977 he founded the successor firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects.
His work is generally classified as postmodern, though a more useful classification would be a particular emphasis on context and the continuity of traditions. He may have been the first architect to use the term "postmodernism"[1], but more recently he has used the phrase "modern traditionalist" to describe his work.
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[edit] Major Projects
Major Public Projects include the Nashville Public Library in Nashville, Tennessee, Jacksonville Public Library in Jacksonville, Florida, and the main library in Columbus, Georgia; Point West Place in Framingham, Massachusetts; the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, Georgia, and federal courthouses in Youngstown, Ohio, Beckley, West Virginia and Richmond, Virginia.
[edit] Master planning
He and his firm have notably been involved in projects for The Walt Disney Company, including the plan for the town of Celebration, Florida and the design of Disney's feature animation building in Burbank, California. He and his firm were also involved in planning the renovation of Times Square, New York City, beginning in 1992 and is the campus master planner for Georgetown University, the Harvard Law School, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia.
[edit] Other activities
He hosted the television series Pride of Place: Building the American Dream on PBS and his book New York 1930 was nominated for the National Book Award. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Stern has spoken frequently in defense of preservationists' efforts to save the ur-postmodernist 2 Columbus Circle in New York City, which is being radically altered and occupied by the Museum of Art and Design.
[edit] Projects
The following is an incomplete list:
- Master Plan for Times Square, New York City (1992)
- Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1993)
- Master Plan for Celebration, Florida (1997)
- Broadway Hall at Columbia University (2000)
- Spangler Campus Center at the Harvard Business School (2001)
- Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston, Texas (2002)
- Southwest Quadrangle of Georgetown University (2003)
- International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2005)
- Jacksonville Public Library (2005)
- Federal Courthouse for Richmond, Virginia (2006)
- American Revolution Center, the museum of the Valley Forge National Historic Park in Pennsylvania (2007)
- Fifteen Central Park West, New York City (2007)
- Northwest Campus building for Harvard Law School (2009)
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