Inside the workshop of Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Speaking in the first person is taboo at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. When discussing the design process, architects at the firm will constantly use the refrain: “So, that’s very important to us.” It’s an element of the hive mind philosophy that leaps out when touring the firm’s Far West Side workshop.
After a stint under Richard Meier, Robert A.M. Stern founded his own firm in 1969 with a partner, John Hagmann. In 1977, he struck out on his own to start RAMSA, now a 325-person shop with projects such as the “Limestone Jesus” at 15 Central Park West, Superior Ink and Philadelphia’s Comcast Center. The firm’s current projects in New York include 70 Vestry Street for the Related Companies, and 30 Park Place for Silverstein Properties.
The Real Deal visited on a typical, noisy weekday: The space was littered with sketches, models, renderings and images used for research and various tools of design. Dividers separated the open space into individual meeting rooms for various groups (the firm can be working on more than 100 projects simultaneously). Scattered around were photographs of arches, rough ink sketches of facades, lumps of clay and cans of diet coke (the fuel of choice for the entire company, according to Whalen). Amid the chaos, employees don jackets and ties.
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[@dexterding1080]

We simply need more architects like Stern nowadays! To bring live and character and most importantly, the coherency to Cities’ traditions to buildings

[@TheVaughan5]

I love Stern's use of limestone in most of his buildings. Nothing comes close to the lasting beauty of this material. I love his quote about modern glass and metal buildings looking like they could be demolished with a can opener!

[@fernando5silva]

Architectures that will last... beautiful. Also, architecture doesn't need to be oppressive to be monumental.

[@InsaneNuYawka]

One word encompasses what they do: class.

[@casheddy8922]

Lovely to see architects embracing classicism again----the world has plenty of glass and metal boxes by this point--

[@nishikapedro3796]

Robert Sterns

[@goodboid]

Mills and Boons architecture personified. Nauseating.

[@justinleemiller]

Are you an architect? And where did you go to school? Just curious.