Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Harden: Stern offers elegance over absurdity

Published Monday, September 8, 2008

Yale students of the future have cause to smile now that Robert A. M. Stern ARC ’65, dean of Yale’s School of Architecture, has been selected as the architect for Yale’s two new residential colleges. His recently completed neoclassical building at 15 Central Park West in Manhattan shows why he is the right man for the job. The interior of the building offers the finest luxuries and modern amenities; the exterior blends perfectly and elegantly with the stately prewar apartment houses to the north.

Some have criticized the University for not making a bolder choice. These same critics...

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