{"product_id":"between-memory-and-invention-my-journey-in-architecture-hardcover","title":"Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert A. M. Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A capsule history of American architecture since 1960.\" - Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchitect, historian, and educator Robert A.M. Stern presents a personal and candid assessment of contemporary architecture and his fifty years of practice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEncompassing autobiography, institutional history, and lively, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Between Memory and Invention surveys the world of architecture from the 1960s to the present, and Stern's critical role in it. By turns thoughtful, critical, and irreverent, this is a highly accessible text replete with personal insights and humor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author is Robert A.M. Stern, once described by Philip Johnson as \"the brightest young man I have ever met in my entire teaching career,\" and internationally acknowledged as a leader in architecture and architectural scholarship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply committed to the concept that architects must \"look to the past to build for the future,\" Stern is the founding partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the former Dean and current Hoppin Professor of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture, and the author of more than twenty books and countless essays and commentaries on an extraordinary range of architectural and cultural topics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChronicling his formative years, architectural education, and half-century of architectural practice, Stern touches on influences that shaped him - his Brooklyn upbringing, family excursions to look at buildings, teachers (Paul Rudolph, the legendary Vincent Scully, and Philip Johnson among them), major projects of the firm (the new town of Celebration, Florida, restoration of Times Square and 42nd Street, George W. Bush Presidential Center), and the many clients, fellow architects, and professional partners that have peopled his extraordinary career. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften proposed as \"Mr. New York,\" Stern has a deep commitment to the city, to recording its past - he is the lead author of the monumental New York series, the definitive history of architecture and urbanism from the late nineteenth century to the present - and shaping its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday elegant RAMSA residential towers are rising throughout Manhattan to enrich the skyline in the tradition of the luxurious apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text is supported by a lively mix of images drawn from Stern's personal archive, including student work and travel slides, images of architectural precedents and colleagues that have shaped his thinking, and images related to projects he discusses (drawings, plans, and finished photography, architectural team, and clients).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert A. M. Stern\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder and senior partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects, a renowned architectural practice that encompasses residential, institutional, academic, and commercial projects nationally and internationally. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and in 2017 received the Topaz Medallion, awarded jointly by the AIA and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in recognition of outstanding service to architectural education. Stern is the 2011 Driehaus Prize laureate and in 2008 received the tenth Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum. Stern served as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1998 to 2016; he was named J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture in 2000. A prolific writer, he is the lead author of the monumental New York series documenting the architectural and urban development of the city over the past 150 years and more than twenty other books, including \u003ci\u003eParadise Planned, The New Residential Colleges at Yale, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Pedagogy and Place.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeopoldo Villardi \u003c\/b\u003eis an architectural historian and a research associate at Robert A. M. Stern Architects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 520\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 10.24 x 7.64 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48422543524089,"sku":"9781580935890","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/hEnaV3Lchp9781580935890.webp?v=1779271092","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/between-memory-and-invention-my-journey-in-architecture-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}