Each year for the past 10 years, faculty members from the College’s School of the Arts have chosen a deserving recipient for the Albert Simons Medal of Excellence. The recipient must be an individual who has excelled in one of the disciplines in which Simons – who pioneered teaching art at the College in 1924 – himself excelled, including civic design, architectural design, historic preservation and urban planning.
Robert A.M. Stern
This year, the Historic Preservation and Community Planning Program will present the medal to Robert A.M. Stern for his outstanding and exemplary work in design, historic preservation and education.
Stern, who is often regarded as the dean of modern architecture in the U.S., is the actual dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He is also founder and senior partner in the firm of Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York City, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received both the Athena Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Board of Directors’ Honor from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America, among other distinctions. Stern was also the tenth recipient of the Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum, and laureate of the Driehaus Prize for traditional and classical architecture and urbanism.
[pullquote align=”left” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]”We should ask our architects that our buildings be not only of our time but of our place.” – Albert Simons[/pullquote]
A conversation with Stern about his career and experiences will take place on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, at 6 p.m. at the Recital Hall in the Simons Center for the Arts, 54 St. Philip St. Admission is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow.
Learn more about the Albert Simons Medal of Excellence.
