Columbia University New York, N.Y. 10027 Office of Public Information (212) 854-5573
Architect and Columbia University professor Robert A.M. Stern, who sees architecture as the embodiment of the values and culture of society, will discuss the topic "Place, Time and Architecture" in a slide lecture at the University Monday, October 30.
Professor Stern, founder and senior partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York and a noted scholar and author, will deliver the first University Lecture of the academic year at 8 P.M. in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus at Broadway and 116th Street. It is free and open to the public.
A faculty member at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation since 1970, he is co-author of the recently published New York 1960, the third volume in his landmark series on New York City architecture and urbanism.
In his talk, Professor Stern said he will "examine American efforts, both historic and contemporary, to create a compelling sense of place." Using historical examples and his own work, he will discuss "the particular challenges of making buildings in the United States, a self-invented culture continually in search of a usable past."
Mr. Stern's work includes award-winning shingle-style residences and notable commercial and civic buildings worldwide, including the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., the new Brooklyn Law School Building, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, the Ohrstrom Library at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., hotels at Euro Disneyland and Walt Disney World and the Center for Jewish Life at Princeton University.
Educated at Columbia and Yale Universities, he was the first director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at the University (1984-88). In 1986, he hosted "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream," an eight-part, eight-hour documentary television series on PBS.
His books include New Directions in American Architecture, George Howe: Toward a Modern American Architecture and Modern Classicism. New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial," co-authored with Thomas Mellins and David Fishman, is an examination of three decades that reshaped New York and the concept of what cities and city life ought to be. The earlier volumes in the series are New York 1900, co-authored with John Massengale and Gregory Gilmartin, and New York 1930, with Mr. Mellins and Mr. Gilmartin.
Seven books on Mr. Stern's own architectural work have been published. His designs have been exhibited at numerous galleries and universities and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, the Denver Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. A fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he was awarded the New York Chapter's Medal of Honor in 1984.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company.
The University Lectures annually bring before the Columbia community and the public addresses by outstanding Columbia faculty members.
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