Stern, Robert A.M.

Dean and J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture. Mr. Stern, founder and senior partner in the firm of Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York City, is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and received the Medal of Honor in 1984 and the President’s Award in 2001 from its New York chapter. Prior to becoming dean in 1998, he was a professor of architecture and director of the 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; George Howe: Toward a Modern American Architecture; and Modern Classicism. Mr. Stern’s particular interest and experience in the development of New York City’s architecture and urbanism can be seen in books he has co-authored: New York 1880, New York 1900, New York 1930, New York 1960, and New York 2000. In 1986 Mr. 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, Mr. Stern lectured at Yale as the William Clyde DeVane Professor. In 2002 he received the President’s Medal from the Architectural League of New York. Mr. Stern received a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.Arch. from Yale University.