Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings and Towns

Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational complexes completed throughout the world over the past twenty years. The sequel to the highly successful Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings (1996), this volume also incorporates master plans for towns and campuses.
 
Among the sixty-five featured projects are the Miami Beach Public Library, the new campus for the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, multiple projects for Disney including the Ambassador Hotel in Japan, and a range of apartment towers culminating with 15 Central Park West, the largest residential structure in New York City, opening in fall 2007.

Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational complexes completed throughout the world over the past twenty years. The sequel to the highly successful Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings (1996), this volume also incorporates master plans for towns and campuses.

Among the sixty-five featured projects are the Miami Beach Public Library, the new campus for the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, multiple projects for Disney including the Ambassador Hotel in Japan, and a range of apartment towers culminating with 15 Central Park West, the largest residential structure in New York City, opening in fall 2007.

Architect, educator, and architectural historian Robert A. M. Stern is the founding partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects and dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He is the author of the monumental five-volume history of New York's architecture and urban development, concluding with New York 2000.

Vincent Scully is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University. The dean of architectural history in America, Scully is the author of more than a dozen influential books of which the best-known are The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright, Architecture: The Natural and the Man-Made, and Modern Architecture and Other Essays.

Architect, educator, and architectural historian Robert A. M. Stern is the founding partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architectus and 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.

Vincent Scully is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University. Scully is the author of more than a dozen influential books of which the best known are The Shingle Style and Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright, Architecture: The Natural and the Man-Made, and Modern Architecture and Other Essays.