The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture
Previous Conferences // 2000: Reinventing Space // Speakers
11 - 14 June 2000

Robert A. M. Stern

Author or editor of more than twenty books, frequently appearing on radio and television, a professor for many years at Columbia University, and now the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture where he earned his architecture degree in 1965, Robert A. M. Stern is one of the best publicly known architects in the United States. Early in his career he reacted against modernism by employing a vocabulary of historically traditional forms and motifs transformed by collage, juxtaposition, and humour into a new interpretive grammar that qualified him as one of the first postmodernists. His passion for building homes full of pure light and appropriate spaces while conforming to their settings, has made him a pioneer of contemporary American residential architecture. Through the work of his firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, founded in 1969, he has applied his vision to commercial and institutional projects such as Mexx International Headquarters in Voorschoten, Netherlands (1987); the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts(1993); the Disney Feature Animation Building in Burbank (1994); and the William Gates Computer Science Building in Palo Alto (1996). Robert A. M. Stern is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and is a recipient of its New York Medal of Honor.
Robert A. M. Stern

Image: Mexx International Headquarters, Voorschoten, Netherlands (1987)
Photo: Peter Aaron/ESTO
Portrait: Klaus Schoenwiese








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