Robert A. M. Stern

A thought-provoking, elegantly crafted collection of essays by one of architecture's most influential figures Among practicing architects today, perhaps only Robert A. M. Stern once contemplated a career as a historian, an interest that has informed both his built work and his writings. Tradition and Invention in Architecture brings together 26 of Stern's essays and conversations from the past five decades. Topics range from modern classicism, American housing, gardens, and New York City to the work of Norman Foster, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, and Robert Moses. Reminders of Stern's own broad career in architecture are found in his thoughts on his PBS television series Pride of Place, his discussion of the planning of Seaside and Celebration, Florida, and his view on institutional branding through architecture. Known as much for his candor as for his profound knowledge of American architecture, Stern's observations on the architecture of his time are equally valuable. As he writes, "For an architect, writing is one way of reconsidering history while working in the present--always in search of the best from the past and the present, which allows us to invent for the future."

Conversations and Essays

Tradition and Invention in Architecture

Thomas Mellins

Gregory Gilmartin

Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars

New York 1930

Paul Goldberger

Jonathan Grzywacz

Peter Morris Dixon

Michael D. Jones

City Living

Shows and describes Stern's recent designs for apartments, homes, office buildings, and townhouses

Toward a Modern Architecture After Modernism

Robert A.M. Stern, 1965-1980

David Fishman

"New York 1880 definitively presents the buildings and master plans that transformed New York from a harbor town into a world-class metropolis. The book is generously illustrated with over 1,200 archival photographs that show the city as it was; through a broad range of primary sources - critics and writers, architects, planners, and government officials - New York City tells its own complex story."--BOOK JACKET.

Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age

New York 1880

The International Design Yearbook

Robert A. M. Stern

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