draw on vernacular context and local traditions. In recent years, the work of Stern's office has ranged from traditional to modernist, depending on the building type and project location, and is best characterized as eclectic and contextual. Notable projects Personal life Stern owns an apartment in The Chatham, a building he designed in New York City. In 1966, he married photographer Lynn Gimbel Solinger, the daughter of David Solinger and the granddaughter of Bernard Gimbel, a marriage that ended by divorce in 1977. They had one son, Nicholas S. G. Stern, who manages the boutique construction and planning firm Stern Projects. Awards 1993: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 2006: Edmund N. Bacon Prize 2007: Athena Medal from the Congress for the New Urbanism 2008: Vincent Scully Prize 2010: Historic Districts Council's Landmarks Lion Award 2011: Driehaus Architecture Prize 2019: Louis Auchincloss Prize Bibliography A selection of books written and co-written by Stern: New Directions in American Architecture (1969) George Howe : Toward a Modern American Architecture (1975) New York 1900 : Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890–1915 (1983) New York 1930 : Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars (1987) Modern Classicism (1988) Pride of Place : Building the American Dream (1986) New York 1960 : Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial (1997) New York 1880 : Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age (1999) New York 2000 : Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium (2006) The Philip Johnson Tapes : Interviews by Robert A.M. Stern (2008) Paradise Planned : The Garden Suburb and the Modern City (2013) Pedagogy and Place: 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale (2016) The New Residential Colleges at Yale: A Conversation Across Time (2018) References External links Robert A.M. Stern Architects website 1939 births Living people American neoclassical architects New Classical architects Architects from New York City Fellows of the American Institute of Architects Driehaus Architecture Prize winners Columbia College (New York) alumni Columbia University faculty Jewish American artists Jewish architects Yale School of Architecture alumni Yale School of Architecture faculty People from Brooklyn 20th-century American architects 21st-century American architects Gimbel family Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters