Heritage offers itself to all of us. That's the message of architect, writer and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture Robert A. M. Stern. As founder of a 220-member architecture firm with residential, corporate, entertainment, hospitality, and civic clients around the world, he delivers it with profound visual eloquence.
Stern has redefined the way generations of architects think about modern traditional architecture, demonstrating that the richness of design history and the warmth and character found in time-honored building styles are not reserved for the precincts of high-end living. A persuasive and eloquent advocate for historic preservation, he has fused classicism with wit and modern amenities, whether in reinventing the Shingle Style, Colonial Revival, or Arts and Crafts, to name only three of the many building types he has reintroduced to the contemporary market. Scale, light, pattern, symmetry, material-there is a history to what gives us comfort, and we ought to pay attention. People do.
Among them are clients as diverse as the Walt Disney Company, the Four Seasons, and The Norman Rockwell Museum, not to mention the entire viewing public of Stern's celebrated PBS documentary series Pride of Place: Building the American Dream.-Akiko Busch
Robert A.M. Stern's website:
www.ramsa.com
