Robert A. M. Stern

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Robert Arthur Morton Stern, also known as Robert A. M. M.

Stern, a New York-based Architect, Professor, and writer born on May 23, 1939.

He is the founding partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, also known as RAMSA.

He was Dean of Yale School of Architecture from 1998 to 2016.

The firm's major contributions include: the classically styled New York apartment building, 15 Central Park West; two residential colleges at Yale University; Philadelphia's Museum of the American Revolution; and the modernist Comcast Center skyscraper in Philadelphia.

Stern received the Driehaus Architecture Prize in 2011 for his contributions to modern classical architecture.

Early life and education

Stern, a Jewish immigrant, spent his early years with his parents in Manhattan. They moved to Brooklyn, where Stern grew up after 1940. Stern earned a bachelor's degree in 1960 and a master's degree in architecture from Yale University in 1965. Stern has cited historian Vincent Scully and architect Philip Johnson as early mentors and influence.

Personal life

Stern built a house in The Chatham, a building he designed in New York City. Lynn Gimbel Solinger, the daughter of Bernard Gimbel and the niece of Bernard Gimbel, married in 1966, a marriage that ended by divorce in 1977. They had one son, Nicholas S. G. Stern, who runs the boutique construction and planning company Stern Projects.

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Career

Stern, a Yale graduate, worked as a curator for the Architectural League of New York, a position he gained through his relationship with Philip Johnson. While at Yale, he curated his second 40 Under 40 show, which featured his own design as well as the work of then-little-known architects Charles Moore, Robert Venturi, and Romaldo Giurgola, all of whom were included in the influential issue of Perpeta, which was published a year before at Yale. Stern began as a designer in the office of architect Richard Meier in 1966 and spent two and a half years in New York City's Housing and Development Department, after which he founded Stern & Hagmann with John S. Hagmann, a fellow student from Yale's days. Robert A.M. Stern Architects, a 1977 firm, was founded in 1977, now known as RAMSA. Stern is still a RAMSA consultant, and he has confirmed that he has no plans to resign.

Stern served as the dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1998 to 2016 and has continued to teach there until the end of his tenure. He taught at Columbia University in the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and from 1984 to 1988, he was the architect of Columbia's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for American Architecture.

Stern, a prolific writer, co-authored, and edited numerous books on architecture, including five volumes on New York City's architectural history, each focusing on a particular period of history. In 1986, he hosted "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream," an eight-part documentary series that aired on PBS. Peter Eisenman, Leon Krier, Philip Johnson, Frank Gehry, and other notable architects were included in the series. The public loved "Pride of Place," but some architects feared it.

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Awards

• 1993: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
• 2006: Edmund N. Bacon Prize
• 2007: Athena Medal from the Congress for the New Urbanism
• 2008: Vincent Scully Prize
• 2010: Historic Districts Council's Landmarks Lion Award
• 2011: Driehaus Architecture Prize
• 2019: Louis Auchincloss Prize