Robert A. M. Stern Buildings and Projects 1993-1998

by STERN, ROBERT A.M.

• ISBN13: 9781580931212
• ISBN10: 1580931219
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-05
• Publisher: The Monacelli Press

Summary

In over thirty years of practice, Robert A. M. Stern has developed a distinctive architecture committed to the synthesis of tradition and innovation and to the creation and enhancement of a meaningful sense of place. Inspired by the legacy of great American architecture, his firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, has produced a wide variety of building types at differing scales in a range of stylistic vocabularies throughout the world. This monograph, which follows four earlier volumes documenting Stern's practice, includes more than one hundred projects from the years 1999-2003. Featured in this volume are a number of the distinguished houses for which Stern has become so well known, including residences in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, Colorado, and California. Also presented are numerous educational buildings, another of the firm's specialties, at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, Harvard Business School, Rice University, Johns Hopkins University, Acadia University in Nova Scotia, and other schools. Finally, this volume showcases projects that demonstrate Stern's prodigious range: the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina; Edison Field, home ballpark of the California Angels, in Anaheim; high-rise office and apartment buildings, including the Torre del Aacute;ngel in the heart of Mexico City; courthouses in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio; the Disney Ambassador Hotel at Tokyo Disney Resort; the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; vast urban schemes for Germany and Spain, among other places; the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston; and libraries in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee.

Author Biography

Robert A. M. Stern, the principal partner of the architectural practice he founded in 1969, is also dean of the Yale School of Architecture. In addition to monographs on the firm's work, Stern has written a series of books on New York's architecture and urbanism, including New York 1880, New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(3)
Robert A. M. Stern
Buildings and Projects, 1999--2003
Residence, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts	12	(14)
Gap Inc. Offices at Two Folsom Street, San Francisco, California	26	(16)
Residence, Kings Point, New York	42	(14)
Moore Psychology Building, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire	56	(12)
North Campus Master Plan, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire	68	(2)
Residence in Preston Hollow, Dallas, Texas	70	(18)
Residence in Montecito, Santa Barbara, California	88	(18)
Residence at North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada	106	(12)
Smith Campus Center, Pomona College, Claremont, California	118	(14)
National Advocacy Center, Columbia, South Carolina	132	(12)
Residence in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California	144	(8)
Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse and Federal Building, Beckley, West Virginia	152	(10)
Residence and Guest House, Southampton, New York	162	(14)
Tribeca Park, Battery Park City, New York, New York	176	(10)
Edison Field, Anaheim, California	186	(8)
Residence, Kiawah Island, South Carolina	194	(4)
Disney Ambassador Hotel, Tokyo Disney Resort, Urayasu-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan	198	(26)
Residential Quadrangle and Leo J. O'Donovan Central Dining Facility, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.	224	(4)
Highlands Village, Aspen, Colorado	228	(8)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia	236	(10)
Heavenly View Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado	246	(8)
Diagonal Mar Entertainment and Retail Center, Barcelona, Spain	254	(2)
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston, Texas	256	(14)
Guest House and Tennis Pavilion, Brentwood, California	270	(6)
Street Furniture for J. C. Decaux	276	(2)
Broadway Residence Hall, Columbia University, and Morningside Heights Branch, New York Public Library, New York, New York	278	(8)
Edgewater Apartments, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	286	(8)
Rodgers Recreation Center, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island	294	(6)
Knott Science Center Addition, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland	300	(6)
Manzanita Hall, College of Arts, Media, and Communication, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California	306	(12)
Spangler Campus Center, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts	318	(16)
The Chatham, New York, New York	334	(6)
Apartment in the Chatham, New York, New York	340	(6)
The Seville, New York, New York	346	(2)
Aging and Allied Health Building and Gill Heart Institute, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky	348	(2)
Dream House for This Old House Magazine, Wilton, Connecticut	350	(6)
Miami Beach Library and Collins Park Cultural Center, Miami Beach, Florida	356	(2)
Torre del Angel, Mexico City, Mexico	358	(6)
Nashville Public Library, Nashville, Tennessee	364	(22)
Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse, New York, New York	386	(2)
Clearwater Public Library, Clearwater, Florida	388	(2)
Perkins Visitor Center, Wave Hill, Riverdale, The Bronx, New York	390	(2)
Product Design	392	(2)
Classroom Academic Building and Communications Technology Complex, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana	394	(2)
Dean's Loft, New Haven, Connecticut	396	(6)
Residence, Tidewater, Virginia	402	(2)
Campus Community Center, Mission Bay Campus, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California	404	(2)
Bryant Landing Senior Residence, Roslyn, New York	406	(2)
Zubiarte Retail and Leisure Center, Bilbao, Spain	408	(2)
John L. Vogelstein `52 Dormitory, Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut	410	(8)
626 West Main, Louisville, Kentucky	418	(2)
Residence in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California	420	(2)
A. James Clark Hall, Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland	422	(2)
Residence at West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts	424	(2)
Arnhem City Center, Arnhem, The Netherlands	426	(2)
Bearings, Seal Harbor, Maine	428	(10)
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business Management, Rice University, Houston, Texas	438	(12)
The Westminster, New York, New York	450	(6)
479 Thornall Avenue, Edison Township, New Jersey	456	(2)
Residence in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts	458	(2)
Residence, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada	460	(2)
K. C. Irving Environmental Science Centre and Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada	462	(14)
Campus Plan, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada	476	(2)
Residence Advantage Plan, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada	478	(10)
Residence Hall, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York	488	(2)
Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Youngstown, Ohio	490	(6)
Pennsylvania Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	496	(10)
Residence and Office Building at Quartier am Tacheles, Berlin, Germany	506	(4)
Master Plan, Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, Maryland	510	(4)
New Northrup Hall, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas	514	(2)
Residence, East Hampton, New York	516	(2)
Hickey Freeman Shop, New York, New York	518	(6)
Main Library, Columbus, Georgia	524	(2)
Education and Visitors Center, Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut	526	(4)
United States Courthouse, Richmond, Virginia	530	(2)
Torre Almirante, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	532	(4)
Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, Florida	536	(6)
The Plaza at PPL Center, Allentown, Pennsylvania	542	(2)
One St. Thomas Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada	544	(2)
Smeal College of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania	546	(2)
Philadelphia Naval Business Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	548	(2)
Meadowlands Master Plan, Lyndhurst, Rutherford, and North Arlington, New Jersey	550	(2)
Master Plan, Heiligendamm, Germany	552	(2)
Resort de Veneguera, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain	554	(6)
Additional Projects	560	(32)
Project Information	572	(20)
Illustration Credits	592	(1)
Editor's Acknowledgments	592

Excerpts

From:
Robert A. M. Stern and Paul Goldberger: A Conversation

PAUL GOLDBERGER: Bob, forty years of practice is an extraordinary thing, all the more because you continue at such a rapid pace. I remember the office over the storefront on West Seventy-second Street, which was probably smaller than your reception area is right now. Let me first ask you if there’s anything you miss from those early days when it was a kind of office on a shoestring.

ROBERT A. M. STERN: “Office on a shoestring” sums it up perfectly. What one does miss, of course, from when one is brand new in practice, is the thrill of the first or the second or the third commission or telephone call as it were. And the very close camaraderie of a few people. But there is no question that a larger office—and I’m not sure how much larger “larger” should really be—provides one with all kinds of other things and a more solid professionalism. You avoid some of the horrible mistakes that many small practices make, both technical errors in execution of the work and mistakes in terms of how to position the firm and how to write a contract and a hundred other things.

I was thinking of that, actually, as I was waiting for your arrival. Of course, it was much nicer in some ways when it was smaller and I knew everybody. And I knew them warts and all, and they knew me warts and all. Now I think they know me warts and all and I’m not sure I know them.

But there are people in our practice today who don’t go back to day one but do go back to say, day three. People who have been here thirty years or more and are now partners, and we have a close camaraderie. But of course, many others who came to the practice have become partners and associates as well.

PG: It is remarkable, though, that there are some people who really spent their entire careers here.

RS: I’m always disappointed when people leave. But I recognize that for some people, for many people, it’s a good thing to do. Find their own way. Sometimes people don’t work better in a different environment than the one they’re leaving, but they think it’s going to be better, that the grass will be greener. Sometimes, they think they’re going to be able to do it on their own, and they suddenly discover that independent practice is not for everyone or not for them. Some chose to return to the nest. But we’ve spawned a lot of firms.

PG: You know, for a while, it seemed right to compare Robert A. M. Stern Architects to a practice like Delano & Aldrich or John Russell Pope or James Gamble Rogers, great eclectic firms of the 1920s, ’30s, and so forth.

But given that they were less concerned about formal innovation than they were about careful, conscientious re-use of historical form and given the sheer volume of work you now have, larger than any of those firms, I think even in their heyday, I wonder to whom would you want to be compared, ideally?

RS: There were no really large firms in the time of the architects you mentioned, to my knowledge. None that was very large. McKim, Mead & White and Daniel Burnham set the model, but it was just the model for big practice, not the reality. It’s only since the founding of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in the late 1930s and after that the large firm taking on many different kinds of work began to emerge.

I like to think that we are able to compete with different firms for different kinds of work, that we can compete with a KPF or a Skidmore for a corporate project and other firms for other kinds of work. Maybe we’re sui generis, egomaniac though such a claim might be.

PG: We all know you are sui generis, so the question is therefore, perhaps the firm also is?

RS: We run our practice differently. First of all, we run side by

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