Evidence
Subtitle: the work of Robert A.M. Stern Architects
By: text by Robert A.M. Stern ; edited by Jonathan Grzywacz and Luca Farinelli
Contributors: Grzywacz, Jonathan; Farinelli, Luca; Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781580933490
Subjects: Architectural firms; Architecture; Pictorial works; History; Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Description: Robert A.M. Stern Architects, over its forty-year history and across a wide range of building types, has defined principles common to all projects. Stern articulates the ideas that govern his design process through this rich visual presentation of all types of his work: museums and cultural institutions, colleges and universities, commercial and residential developers, and, famously, private residential clients throughout the United States and Europe. Evidence serves as a visual synthesis of Stern's methodologies, revealing the firm's vision through juxtapositions of building, material and landscape: "We never think of just the building. We like to think of the next bigger thing--what other buildings will come next to it, but also the siting and landscaping. Abstract compositional principles do interest me but not when I begin a design. I begin with a cultural assessment of the building as a type, the place it is set in, and lastly its obligations to its particular moment in time."