Robert A.M.Stern Selected For Society Hill Museum of the American Revolution

Robert A.M. Stern has been selected as the architect for Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution. Robert A.M. Stern may sound familiar and that’s because his firm most recently designed 10 Rittenhouse, the Comcast Center, and redeveloped the Navy Yard. Anyone following the history of this museum knows that the process has involved years of lengthy debate and two rejected sites.  Robert A.M. Stern, the prominent New York architect and dean of the Yale School of Architecture was selected twice before to design the museum and then both projects were dropped when the National Park Service and neighbors complained about elements of the plans.  A deal was finally reached when the American Revolution Center, the nonprofit creating the museum and supplying its artifacts, agreed to give the Park Service a 78-acre property across from Valley Forge in exchange for the site of the old Independence Park visitor center at Third and Chestnut Streets in Center City’s Society Hill neighborhood.  The Museum of the American Revolution’s collection of artifacts is highly touted and includes: a tent of George Washington’s, a 1777 bill of sale for an 18-year-old slave named Henry from New Jersey, and a brace of silver-mounted cannon-barrel pistols that once belonged to Lord North.

Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern is a practicing architect, teacher, and writer. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and received the AIA New York Chapter’s Medal of Honor in 1984 and the Chapter’s President’s Award in 2001. Mr. Stern is the 2011 Driehaus Prize laureate and in 2008 received the tenth Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum. In 2007, he 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. As founder and Senior Partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, he personally directs the design of each of the firm’s projects.

Mr. Stern is Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He was previously Professor of Architecture and Director of the Historic Preservation Program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Mr. Stern served from 1984 to 1988 as the first director of Columbia’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on both historical and contemporary topics in architecture.  Mr. Stern’s work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and universities and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Centre Pompidou, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1976, 1980, and 1996, he was among the architects selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. In 1986 Mr. Stern hosted “Pride of Place: Building the American Dream,” an eight-part, eight-hour documentary television series aired on the Public Broadcasting System. Mr. Stern served on the Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Company from 1992 to 2003. Mr. Stern is a graduate of Columbia University (B.A., 1960) and Yale University (M. Architecture, 1965). (Source: Robert A.M. Stern wesbite)

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