Honoring the Life and Legacy of architect Robert A.M. Stern.

Honoring the Life and Legacy of architect Robert A.M. Stern. WHEREAS, Robert Arthur Morton Stern was born May 23, 1939, in Brooklyn, the eldest of two to Sidney and Sonya Stern. His father sold insurance, ran a hardware store, and drove a cab, while his mother sold china at a Manhattan department store; and WHEREAS, Stern excelled in Latin and math while at Brooklyn’s Manual Training High School, and set his sights on a career in architecture shortly before graduating in 1956; and WHEREAS, Receiving his bachelor’s degree in history from Columbia University (it had no undergraduate architecture program), Stern studied architecture at Yale University for his master’s, then returned to New York City as a curator and later an architect for the City’s Housing Preservation and Development Corporation under Mayor John V. Lindsay; and WHEREAS, In 1969, Stern co-founded a New York architectural practice that ran for eight years before founding Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), the firm at which he would be renowned for his work designing museums, schools, houses, and libraries with a distinctive postmodern style that incorporated elements of classical architecture. Stern’s stylistic influence litters the Manhattan skyline, as luxury apartment towers became his firm’s bread and butter; and WHEREAS, In 1970, Stern joined Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and directed its Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture from 1984 to …