Putting Architecture in Its Place: Robert A.M. Stern and His Scholarship

The Yale School of Architecture will host a day-long symposium honoring former dean Robert A.M. Stern (1939–2025), who led the school from 1998 to 2016. This convening will reflect on Stern’s prolific scholarly output, reverence for history, and legacy as an educator. Sessions will explore Stern’s formative experiences as a young architect, from his time at Yale as a student to the stylistic debates of the 1970s and ’80s, and investigate the long-held convictions that undergirded Stern’s scholarship and built work. Organized by Edward P. Bass Dean and J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture Deborah Berke and Architectural Record managing editor Leopoldo Villardi, this symposium brings together academics and practitioners in the spirit of its titular subject. Participants include Barry Bergdoll, Joe Day, Melissa DelVecchio, Kyle Dugdale, Mark Foster Gage, Sam Jacob, Níall McLaughlin, Mary McLeod, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, M. Surry Schlabs, Robert Simonson, Jennifer Stone, A. Krista Sykes, and Graham Wyatt.