Robert A. M. Stern 1993-1998

by Stern, Robert A.M.

• ISBN13: 9781580930178
• ISBN10: 1580930174
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: The Monacelli Press

Summary

This is the fourth in a set of chronological compilations documenting theork of a prolific architectural firm, detailing projects brought to fruition,urrently underway, and not yet constructed. The firm operates under theonviction that the inherent iconoclasm of modernism combined with its pse

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	(5)
Robert A.M. Stern
Buildings and Projects, 1993-1998
Architects' Office, New York, New York	12	(4)
Center for Jewish Life, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey	16	(6)
Spruce Lodge, Colorado	22	(8)
Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Massachusetts	30	(4)
Residence in River Oaks, Houston, Texas	34	(6)
Columbus Regional Hospital, Columbus, Indiana	40	(6)
Town Square--Wheaton, Illinois	46	(4)
Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, New York	50	(6)
Anglebrook Golf Club, Somers, New York	56	(2)
House at Apaquogue, East Hampton, New York	58	(6)
Kiawah Beach Club, Kiawah Island, South Carolina	64	(6)
Greenbrier at West Village Golf Resort, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan	70	(8)
Residence in the Midwestern United States	78	(6)
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York	84	(6)
Celebration, Florida	90	(8)
Residence in Starwood, Aspen, Colorado	98	(8)
Feature Animation Building, The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, California	106	(10)
Colgate Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia	116	(8)
Red Oaks, Cohasset, Massachusetts	124	(6)
Nanki-Shirahama Golf Clubhouse, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan	130	(2)
Gap Embarcadero Building, San Francisco, California	132	(4)
Residence, Kings Point, New York	136	(2)
Aspen Highlands, Aspen, Colorado	138	(2)
William Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California	140	(8)
Residence at Skimhampton, East Hampton, New York	148	(2)
Residence, Telluride, Colorado	150	(2)
Residence in Beverly Park, Beverly Hills, California	152	(2)
Additions to Points of View, Seal Harbor, Maine	154	(6)
42nd Street Now!, New York, New York	160	(10)
East Hampton Library, East Hampton, New York	170	(4)
Hotel Melayu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	174	(2)
Moore Psychology Building, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire	176	(2)
Disney's Board Walk, Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida	178	(12)
Residence in Preston Hollow, Dallas, Texas	190	(2)
Concert Hall and Museum, Karuizawa, Japan	192	(2)
Celebration Health, Celebration, Florida	194	(8)
Product Design	202	(4)
Residence, Montecito, California	206	(4)
Residence at North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada	210	(2)
Smith Campus Center, Pomona College, Claremont, California	212	(2)
National Advocacy Center, U.S. Department of Justice, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina	214	(2)
Life Dream House	216	(6)
Temple Emanu-el, Closter, New Jersey	222	(2)
Math/Science Building and Library, Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut	224	(2)
Porto Sauipe Marina Village, Bahia, Salvador, Brazil	226	(2)
Pacific Heights Residence, San Francisco, California	228	(2)
U.S. Courthouse and IRS Complex, Beckley, West Virginia	230	(4)
600 Thirteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.	234	(6)
Residence in Southampton, New York	240	(2)
Prototypical Stores for eighteen 77	242	(2)
Saigon Metropolitan Tower, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	244	(2)
Navesink Residence, Middletown, New Jersey	246	(2)
Residence Hall for Columbia University, New York, New York	248	(6)
Residence and Guest House at Katama, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts	254	(6)
U.S. Department of State Office Building Chancery, Berlin, Germany	260	(4)
Newport Bay Club Convention Center, Paris Disneyland, France	264	(6)
Master Plan and Addition to Knott Science Center, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland	270	(2)
Bangor Public Library, Bangor, Maine	272	(6)
U.S. Courthouse Annex, Savannah, Georgia	278	(2)
South Campus Housing, West Quadrangle, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolin	280	(6)
Spring Valley Residence, Washington, D.C.	286	(2)
Union Square South, New York, New York	288	(2)
Yawkey Park, Boston, Massachusetts	290	(2)
Tribeca Park, Battery Park City, New York, New York	292	(4)
Edison Field, Anaheim, California	296	(4)
Miller Field, Milwaukee, Wisconsin	300	(2)
Residence on Kiawah Island, South Carolina	302	(2)
Disney Ambassador Hotel, Urayasu-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan	304	(2)
House at the Point, Santa Lucia Preserve, Monterey County, California	306	(2)
National Storytelling Center, Jonesborough, Tennessee	308	(2)
Mulholland House, Los Angeles, California	310	(2)
Wellesley Office Park, Wellesley, Massachusetts	312	(2)
Residence, Greenwich, Connecticut	314	(2)
Residence, Denver, Colorado	316	(2)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia	318	(2)
Heavenly View Ranch, Old Snowmass, Colorado	320	(2)
Diagonal Mar Entertainment and Retail Center, Barcelona, Spain	322	(4)
Preservation and Development Plan, Heiligendamm, Germany	326	(4)
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston, Texas	330	(4)
New York Coliseum Site, New York, New York	334	(4)
Residence, Mount Kisco, New York	338	(2)
Guest House and Tennis Pavilion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California	340	(2)
Residence in Napa County, Oakville, California	342	(2)
Residence, Long Island, New York	344	(2)
Edgewater Apartments, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	346	(2)
Belas Clube de Campo, Lisbon, Portugal	348	(4)
Welcome Center, Give Kids the World, Kissimmee, Florida	352	(2)
Tuxedo Reserve, Tuxedo, New York	354	(2)
Maharani Menari Tower, Jakarta, Indonesia	356	(2)
Trump St. Moritz Condominiums, New York, New York	358	(2)
Office Building and Parking Garage, Yonkers, New York	360	(2)
Residence at Maidstone, East Hampton, New York	362	(2)
Apartment Tower at Sixty-Fifth Street and Third Avenue, New York, New York	364	(2)
RiverVue, Tuckahoe, New York	366	(2)
The Seville, New York, New York	368	(2)
South Station, Boston, Massachusetts	370	(2)
Senior Community, Celebration, Florida	372	(2)
Animation and Emerging Technologies Building, Sheridan College, Oakville-Trafalgar, Ontario, Canada	374	(2)
Arts Center, Denison University, Granville, Ohio	376	(2)
Residence, Palo Alto, California	378	(2)
House for This Old House Magazine, Wilton, Connecticut	380	(2)
Reforma 350, Mexico City, Mexico	382	(2)
Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County, Nashville, Tennessee	384	(6)
Project Information	390	(10)
Illustration Credits	400

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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