ABSTRACT
Architect, United States A brilliant polymath in command of a daunting array of talents, Robert Stern is perhaps
the true successor to Philip Johnson, one of his mentors, as one of the prime figures in the American architectural world. In 1998, Stern was appointed dean of the school of architecture at Yale University, where he had earned a Master of Architecture degree (1965). He was coeditor of Perspecta 9-10, the first double issue of that distinguished periodical created by graduate architectural students at Yale. In 1970, he began teaching in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at his undergraduate alma mater, Columbia University (BA., 1960), and in 1984 undertook a four-year term as first director of its Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.
