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Between memory and invention : my journey in architecture / Robert A.M. Stern, with Leopoldo Villardi.

by Stern, Robert A. M., author.

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New York, New York : Monacelli Press, [2022]

Stern, Robert A. M.

Robert A.M. Stern Architects -- History.

Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century.

9781580935890 (hardcover) :

519 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Beginnings 1939-1960 -- Architecture in a time of heroics Yale, 1960-1965 -- Finding my way 1965-1969 -- Getting started 1969-1976 -- Postmodernism's paradox -- The past is always present: toward modern traditionalism -- At the magic kingdom -- Academic and advocate -- Yale redux 1998-2016 -- Passing the baton -- Afterward / Leopoldo Villardi.

"Encompassing autobiography, institutional history, and lively, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture surveys the world of architecture from the 1960s to the present and Robert A. M. Stern's critical role in it. The book chronicles Stern's formative years, architectural education, and half-century of architectural practice, touching on all the influences that shaped him. He details his Brooklyn upbringing, family excursions to look at key twentieth-century buildings, and relationships with prominent teachers--Paul Rudolph and the legendary Vincent Scully among them. Stern also recounts the origins of RAMSA and major projects in its history, including the new town of Celebration, Florida, the restoration of Times Square and 42nd Street, 15 Central Park West, Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray Colleges at Yale, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center, as well as references the many clients, fellow architects, and professional partners who have peopled his extraordinary career. By turns thoughtful, critical, and irreverent, this accessible, informative account of a life in architecture is replete with personal insights and humor. Stern's voice comes through clearly in the text--he details his youthful efforts to redraw house plans in real estate ads, his relationship to Philip Johnson, which began at Yale and was sustained through countless lunches at the Four Seasons, his love of Cole Porter and movies from the 1930s and 1940s, his struggle to launch an architecture practice in the 1970s in the midst of a recession, and his complex association with Disney and Michael Eisner. Unsurprisingly, New York City plays a big role in Between Memory and Invention. Stern has a deep commitment to the city and recording its past--he is the lead author of the monumental New York book series, the definitive history of architecture and urbanism from the late nineteenth century to the present--and shaping its future. Though now a global practice, RAMSA residential towers rise throughout Manhattan to enrich the skyline in the tradition of the luxurious apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s"-- Publisher.

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