12/19/2025
I just wrote the review of Robert A.M. Stern's final book, NEW YORK 2020, in the new Architectureal Record Magazine (Dec. 2025 issue). An excerpt he would have loved ----"Hudson Yards. Like a 30-acre chunk of Dallas that was airlifted and dropped into New York, this mostly flavorless and certainly anti-urban development is a wonder of planned corporate mediocrity, and it is covered in great detail in the book—a blessing for future architects, who will now know how to avoid repeating any aspect of it." I'm so bummed it came out too late for him to read it.