"Stern, who was dean of the School of Architecture for 18 years, took himself and his firm on a deep dive into Yale’s gothic architecture and its Oxbridge roots in order to design Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray Colleges. This lavishly illustrated book documents that process thoroughly with essays, drawings, diagrams, and photographs." - Yale Alumni Magazine
Architect, educator, and architectural historian Robert A.M. Stern is the founding partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1998 to 2016, he is co-author of a five-volume history of New York's architecture and urbanism as well as Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City.
Writer and researcher Gideon Fink Shapiro holds a doctorate in architectural history and theory from the University of Pennsylvania. He has contributed to the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architect, Domus, the Guggenheim Blog, Next City, and the Architect's Newspaper.