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Robert A. M. Stern is dedicated to the synthesis of tradition and innovation. In more than thirty-five years of practice, he has produced a wide range of building types with a variety of stylistic influences, all inspired by the great legacy of American architecture. His firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, was first recognized for its distinguished houses, and residential design remains the cornerstone of the practice. This beautifully illustrated monograph?a companion to the best-selling Robert A. M. Stern: Houses?presents twenty-six of the firm's most memorable houses.
Located in diverse settings across North America?from a valley in Colorado with sweeping views of the Aspen mountains, to a bluff overlooking Long Island Sound, to an island off the coast of British Columbia?these remarkable houses reveal the architect's emphasis on the importance of context and his dedication to exploring the nature of place. Each house invokes the vernacular architectural heritage particular to its region, while gracefully reflecting its unique natural surroundings. Whether they are shingle style "cottages" by the sea, colonial Georgian country estates, or elegant Regency designs, Stern's houses are unique both for their timelessness and their ability to evoke a conversation with the past?a dialogue he believes lies at the heart of architecture.
作者简介 Robert A. M. Stern, the principal partner of the architectural practice he founded in 1969, is also a renowned historian of American architecture and dean of the Yale School of Architecture. Stern has written many important books, including the extraordinary series on New York's architecture and urbanism, most recently New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age, and his architecture has been the subject of several more volumes, including Robert A. M. Stern Buildings and Projects: 1999-2003.
Witold Rybczynski is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Architect Andrea Palladio and the prizewinning A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century.
媒体推荐 For sheer star power, it's hard to beat Robert A. M. Stern Houses and Gardens, a heavyweight extravaganza... -- The New York Times, December 4, 2005
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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 disappoint
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