 | Robert A.M. Stern |
Robert A.M. Stern has agreed to serve a ,third five-year term as dean of
Yale School of Architecture, effective July 1.
T H I S
Stern named to third term as
dean of School of Architecture
In making the announcement, President Richard C. Levin cited Stern’s “unprecedented
level of energy, leadership and organization” during his tenure as dean. “He
has raised the profile of the school and strengthened its national and international
reputation,” said Levin.
Since his appointment in 1998, Stern has transformed the School of Architecture
into an international hub of architectural discourse, giving faculty appointments
to such leading talents as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Richard Rogers, and creating
a public forum for the world architectural intelligentsia to exchange ideas.
Stern has hosted symposia and conferences on subjects ranging from the preservation
of modernist buildings to retrospectives on Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson and Eero
Saarinen, and a recent colloquium in which critics, philosophers and practitioners
met to discuss the architecture of sacred spaces. In 2002, Stern set the stage
for an ideological duel between New Urbanist Leon Krier and Deconstructionist
Peter Eisenman. The conversation between the two, who are old friends and teaching
colleagues at the School of Architecture, was later published as a book.
Stern also introduced regularly scheduled exhibitions at the School of Architecture
which have drawn visitors from throughout the world. Under his aegis, the ground
floor of Paul Rudolph’s landmark Art and Architecture building has been
filled variously with the inflatable figures of the art collective Ant Farm,
models of the futuristic “3-D city” of the Dutch firm MVRDV and a
display of the latest innovations in “pre-fab” by some of the nation’s
top designers, to cite just a few.
In 2004, Stern announced the creation of the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting
Architecture Fellowship, which allows Yale architecture students to learn from
a different internationally recognized property developer each year. The first
Bass Fellow was Houston-based real estate executive Gerald Hines, and subsequent
fellows have been Sir Stuart Lipton, Roger Madelin and Nick Johnson.
A 1965 graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, Stern also holds the title
of J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture. Before coming to Yale as dean, he was
professor and director of the Historical Preservation Department of the Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, and
was the first director of Columbia’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the
Study of American Architecture.
Stern also maintains an active practice in the New York firm of Robert A.M. Stern
Architects, which he founded and where he is a senior partner. Recent and current
projects include the Gap Headquarters in San Francisco, Comcast Center in Philadelphia,
the Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, and The Center for the American Revolution
at Valley Forge.
Stern is a leading authority on the architecture and architectural history of
New York, the city where he was born and still lives. A prolific writer on modern
architecture, he is best known for the books he has co-authored focusing on New
York’s architectural history through the decades. His most recent book
in the series is the critically acclaimed “New York 2000: Architecture
and Urbanism from the Bicentennial to the Millennium.”
This year the dean added the Governor’s Award for Excellence from The Connecticut
Commission on Culture and Tourism to his long list of distinguished honors. New
York Magazine, listing him as one of the 100 most influential New Yorkers in
2006, noted: “Stern is a powerhouse host, one who has shifted the city’s
architectural center a little bit to the north.”
A champion of modernist landmarks that have fallen out of favor, Stern will preside
over the historic reopening next fall of Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture
Building following an extensive renovation. The building will be renamed The
Rudolph Building in honor of its architect.
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