Robert A.M. Stern Architects is a 140-person firm of architects, landscape architects, interior designers, and supporting staff. Over its thirty-five-year history, the firm has established an international reputation as a leading design firm with wide experience in residential, commercial, and institutional work. Currently, the firm has projects underway in twenty states as well as in the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Spain, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and China.

Our firm's practice is premised on the belief that the public is entitled to buildings that do not, by their very being, threaten the aesthetic and cultural values of the buildings around them. We do not believe that any one style is appropriate to every building and every place. We know that no two institutions are the same and that, as much as our past experience can inform our work process, we must always start a project with an open mind and a clean slate. We believe in the continuity of tradition and strive in our work to create order out of the often chaotic present by entering into a dialogue with the spirit of the places in which we build to develop a distinctive and appropriate character for each of our projects -- especially important for an institution such as the Westport Weston Family Y that serves an entire community.

For example, for The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, our building accommodates the complex programmatic elements of a modern museum within a facility that has the qualities of scale and directness that Norman Rockwell's art represents by drawing on the simple classicism of New England's traditional public buildings. The firm's building for the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York, reflects the environmental commitment of the Institute with its picturesque massing and rustic vocabulary of the new building. Our addition to the East Hampton Library respects the vocabulary established by Aymar Embury II in the original 1910 structure. Our Rodgers Recreation Center at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, masks the inherently boxy massing of the building's main gymnasium with lower-scale elements containing a variety of these program elements, thereby visually reducing the scale of the center and relating it to neighboring houses and historic outbuildings. The base village at Aspen Highlands in Colorado draws on the American rustic architectural tradition exemplified by such noted and uniquely American structures as the Ahawahnee Inn in Yosemite Valley, Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone Park, Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, and Paradise Lodge on Mount Rainier.

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