Robert Arthur Morton Stern
Robert Arthur Morton Stern (b. 1939)
Robert A.M. Stern is an American architect and dean of the Yale University School of Architecture. He received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, NY, and a master’s degree in architecture from Yale University. Mr. Stern worked as a designer in the office of Richard Meier prior to forming the firm of Stern & Hagmann, and in 1977 he founded the successor firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects. As founder and Senior Partner of the firm, Mr. Stern personally directs the design of each of the firm’s projects. 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.
Beginning in 1992, Mr. Stern and his firm were involved in planning the renovation of Times Square in New York City. In 2008, the firm of Robert A.M. Stern was selected to design the two new residential colleges at Yale University, the largest single building commission in New Haven’s history. The Robert A.M. Stern firm is also 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.
Mr. Stern’s work is generally classified as postmodern, but more recently he has used the phrase “modern traditionalist” to describe his work. His major public projects include the Lakewood Public Library, Lakewood, OH; Nashville Public Library in Nashville, TN; the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, GA; and federal courthouses in Youngstown, OH, Beckley, West VA and Richmond, VA; the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan; the College of William and Mary, and the George W. Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University.