BIOGRAPHY

Robert Arthur Morton Stern, (often recognized as Robert A.M. Stern) is an American Architect whose projects have helped shape postmodern architecture and furthered landscaping ideas. Stern is presently the Dean of Yale University School of Architecture. Previously, Robert was a professor of architecture at Columbia University and directed the University Temple: Hoyne Buell. Hoyne Buell is the Center for the Study of American Architecture. Stern received a bachelor‚ degree from Columbia in 1960 and a master‚ degree in architecture from Yale five years later.

After graduating, Stern was offered a job as a designer in the office of Richard Meier, just before forming the Stern & Hagmann firm. His partner, John S. Hagmann, was a fellow student graduating in the Yale Architecture Class of, ’55. Generally, Stern‚ work is classified as postmodern, however continuity and context of traditions is a recurring theme when a project is considered. Robert Stern claims to be the first to use the term “postmodern” however he uses‚ “modern traditionalist”‚ as a description of his work.