Robert A. M. Stern - Buildings & Projects 2004-2009

Zusatztext "Stern ably tells his stories! as do the spectacular photographs and drawings in this weighty tome. Unlike many neo-conservatives who genuflect at a monolithic altar of the past! Stern has a playfully pluralistic relationship to architectural history and contemporary design. And unlike the hippest of the hip! he has no need to dadaistically defy or defame the architectural canon . . . For that and more! this book warrants our appreciative attention." —Norman Weinstein! ArchNewsNow Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext I think that all architecture comes from what went before. And how carefully one hews to precedent or how many liberties one takes, in my view, is part of a larger set of judgments as to what is, or could be called, "appropriate." Appropriate from every point of view, especially from the site, the cultural expectations of a community and of the specific client. -Robert A. M. Stern Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to an architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. This monograph, the fifth volume since Stern opened his practice in 1969, explores the application of this principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, towers, and private residences. Focused on the years 2004 through 2009, an exceptionally productive period for Stern's firm, this volume includes designs for the Miami Beach, Jacksonville, and Clearwater Public Libraries in Florida, the vast Zubiarte retail complex in Bilbao, Spain, two new residential colleges at Yale University, the widely acclaimed 15 Central Park West condominium in New York, Comcast, a crystalline addition to the Philadelphia skyline, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas. In a conversation with renowned architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Stern discusses the principles that have guided the firm since its inception, focusing on the collaborative nature of the work and the importance of precedent and context. He also describes his own role as an educator, as dean of the architecture school at Yale University, and his deep interest in the history of architecture, first awakened during his student days at Yale. Leseprobe 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 w...

Product details

• Authors: Paul Goldberger, Robert A M Stern, Robert A. M. Stern
• Assisted by: Peter Morris Dixon (Editor)
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9781580932349
• ISBN: 978-1-58093-234-9
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 222 mm x 287 mm x 53 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture