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Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, (born May 23, 1939) is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture. Before taking that post, he was professor of architecture at Columbia and director of Columbia's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1960 and a master's degree in architecture from Yale in 1965. After graduating from Yale, Stern worked as a designer in the office of Richard Meier in 1966, prior to forming the firm of Stern & Hagmann with a fellow student from his days at Yale, John S. Hagmann, in 1969. In 1977 he founded the successor firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects.

His work is generally classified as postmodern, though a more useful classification would be a particular emphasis on context and the continuity of traditions. He may have been the first architect to use the term "postmodernism"[1], but more recently he has used the phrase "modern traditionalist" to describe his work.

Major Public Projects include the Lakewood Public Library in Lakewood, Ohio, an inner ring suburb of Cleveland, Ohio; Nashville Public Library in Nashville, Tennessee, Jacksonville Public Library in Jacksonville, Florida, and the main library in Columbus, Georgia; Point West Place in Framingham, Massachusetts; the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, Georgia, and federal courthouses in Youngstown, Ohio, Beckley, West Virginia and Richmond, Virginia the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and the future George W. Bush Presidential Library.

He and his firm have notably been involved in projects for The Walt Disney Company, including the plan for the town of Celebration, Florida and the design of Disney's feature animation building in Burbank, California. He and his firm were also involved in planning the renovation of Times Square, New York City, beginning in 1992 and is the campus master planner for Georgetown University, the Harvard Law School, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia.

He hosted the television series Pride of Place: Building the American Dream on PBS and his book New York 1930 was nominated for the National Book Award. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Stern spoke frequently in defense of preservationists' efforts to save the ur-postmodernist 2 Columbus Circle in New York City, which is now being radically altered and occupied by the Museum of Art and Design.

While studying towards his Masters of Architecture at Yale University, Stern received a grant from the Graham Foundation to aid in his efforts to publish a book on the life and times of George Howe.

The following is an incomplete list:

• Disney's Beach Club Resort Disney's Beach Club Resort (1990)
• Disney's Yacht Club Resort Disney's Yacht Club Resort (1990)
• Master Plan for Times Square, New York City (1992)
• Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1993)
• Disney's Boardwalk Resort Disney's BoardWalk Resort (1996)
• Master Plan for Celebration, Florida (1997)
• East Hampton Library, East Hampton (village), New York (1997)
• Kiawah Island Residents Club
• Broadway Hall at Columbia University (2000)
• Spangler Campus Center at the Harvard Business School (2001)
• Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston, Texas (2002)
• Southwest Quadrangle of Georgetown University (2003)
• International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2005)
• Jacksonville Public Library (2005)
• Federal Courthouse for Richmond, Virginia (2006)
• American Revolution Center, the museum of the Valley Forge National Historic Park in Pennsylvania (2007)
• Comcast Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2007)
• Fifteen Central Park West, New York City (2007)
• East Hampton Town Hall, East Hampton (town), New York (2008)
• Northwest Campus building for Harvard Law School (2009)
• Museum for African Art, New York City (2009)

• Robert Stern website
• Jacksonville Public Library
• Stern's 15 Central Park West
• 10 Rittenhouse Square
• Photograph of Dallas, Texas Home Designed by Architect Robert Stern