{"product_id":"between-memory-and-invention-my-journey-in-architecture-9781580935890","title":"Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A capsule history of American architecture since 1960.\" - Wall Street Journal Architect  historian  and educator Robert A.M. Stern presents a personal and candid assessment of contemporary architecture and his fifty years of practice. Encompassing autobiography  institutional history  and lively  behind-the-scenes anecdotes  Between Memory and Invention surveys the world of architecture from the 1960s to the present  and Sterns critical role in it. By turns thoughtful  critical  and irreverent  this is a highly accessible text replete with personal insights and humor. The author is Robert A.M. Stern  once described by Philip Johnson as \"the brightest young man I have ever met in my entire teaching career \" and internationally acknowledged as a leader in architecture and architectural scholarship. Deeply committed to the concept that architects must \"look to the past to build for the future \" Stern is the founding partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects  the former Dean and current Hoppin Professor of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture  and the author of more than twenty books and countless essays and commentaries on an extraordinary range of architectural and cultural topics. Chronicling his formative years  architectural education  and half-century of architectural practice  Stern touches on influences that shaped him - his Brooklyn upbringing  family excursions to look at buildings  teachers (Paul Rudolph  the legendary Vincent Scully  and Philip Johnson among them)  major projects of the firm (the new town of Celebration  Florida  restoration of Times Square and 42nd Street  George W. Bush Presidential Center)  and the many clients  fellow architects  and professional partners that have peopled his extraordinary career. Often proposed as \"Mr. New York \" Stern has a deep commitment to the city  to recording its past - he is the lead author of the monumental New York series  the definitive history of architecture and urbanism from the late nineteenth century to the present - and shaping its future. Today elegant RAMSA residential towers are rising throughout Manhattan to enrich the skyline in the tradition of the luxurious apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s. The text is supported by a lively mix of images drawn from Sterns personal archive  including student work and travel slides  images of architectural precedents and colleagues that have shaped his thinking  and images related to projects he discusses (drawings  plans  and finished photography  architectural team  and clients).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666232664117,"sku":"ByrdShop_1580935893","price":101.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781580935890.jpg?v=1782424272","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/between-memory-and-invention-my-journey-in-architecture-9781580935890","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}