Between Memory and Invention

My Journey in Architecture

Between Memory and Invention
Robert A M Stern
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Hardback
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22 Feb 2022 US
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9781580935890
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Architect, historian, and educator Robert A. M. Stern presents a personal and candid assessment of contemporary architecture and his fifty years of practice. Encompassing autobiography, institutional history, and lively, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Between Memory and Invention surveys the world of architecture from the 1960s to the present, and Stern' s critical role in it. By turns thoughtful, critical, and irreverent, this is a highly accessible text replete with personal insights and humor. The author is Robert A. M. Stern, once described by Philip Johnson as "the brightest young man I have ever met in my entire teaching career," and internationally acknowledged as a leader in architecture and architectural scholarship. Deeply committed to the concept that architects must "look to the past to build for the future," Stern is the founding partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects, the former Dean and current Hoppin Professor of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture, and the author of more than twenty books and countless essays and commentaries on an extraordinary range of architectural and cultural topics. Chronicling his formative years, architectural education, and half-century of architectural practice, Stern touches on influences that shaped him-his Brooklyn upbringing, family excursions to look at buildings, teachers (Paul Rudolph, the legendary Vincent Scully, and Philip Johnson among them), major projects of the firm (the new town of Celebration, Florida, restoration of Times Square and 42nd Street, George W. Bush Presidential Center), and the many clients, fellow architects, and professional partners that have peopled his extraordinary career. Often proposed as "Mr. New York," Stern has a deep commitment to the city, to recording its past-he is the lead author of the monumental New York series, the definitive history of architecture and urbanism from the late nineteenth century to the present-and shaping its future. Today elegant RAMSA residential towers are rising throughout Manhattan to enrich the skyline in the tradition of the luxurious apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s. The text is supported by a lively mix of images drawn from Stern' s personal archive, including student work and travel slides, images of architectural precedents and colleagues that have shaped his thinking, and images related to projects he discusses (drawings, plans, and finished photography, architectural team, and clients).
"I count Bob Stern among the few architects who have understood and embraced the messy plurality of democracy. With integrity and intelligence, he has been a formidable voice where it counts-in the built landscape. Generations of architecture students and young architects have benefited from his uncanny ability to gauge architecture' s pulse at any given moment and his commitment to opening up the conversation to all capable voices. And, admirably, he has done this with a focus on the profession and an emphasis on architecture' s real impact on the communities in which we live. His compelling new book Between Memory and Invention tells the story of his amazing journey. " -Frank Gehry "Worth adding to your winter reading list . . . Blending autobiography, history, and criticism, Robert A. M. Stern' s Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture provides candid reflections on the architect' s life. " -Metropolis
Robert A. M. Stern is the founder and senior partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects, a renowned architectural practice that encompasses residential, institutional, academic, and commercial projects nationally and internationally. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and in 2017 received the Topaz Medallion, awarded jointly by the AIA and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in recognition of outstanding service to architectural education. Stern is the 2011 Driehaus Prize laureate and in 2008 received the tenth Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum. Stern served as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1998 to 2016; he was named J. M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture in 2000. A prolific writer, he is the lead author of the monumental New York series documenting the architectural and urban development of the city over the past 150 years and more than twenty other books, including Paradise Planned, The New Residential Colleges at Yale, and Pedagogy and Place.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781580935890
Published: 22 Feb 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Monacelli Press
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 254mm
Width: 191mm
Pages: 368

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