Robert A. M. Stern Quotes

Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.