Architect, historian, and educator Robert A. M. Stern presents a personal and candid assessment of contemporary architecture and his fifty years of practice.

For more than fifty years, Robert A. M. Stern has designed extraordinary buildings around the world. Founding partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), Stern was once described as "the brightest young man I have ever met in my entire teaching career" by Philip Johnson and recently called "New York City's most valuable architect" by Bloomberg.

Encompassing autobiography, institutional history, and lively, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture surveys the world of architecture from the 1960s to the present and Robert A. M. Stern's critical role in it. The book chronicles Stern's formative years, architectural education, and half-century of architectural practice, touching on all the influences that shaped him. He details his Brooklyn upbringing, family excursions to look at key twentieth-century buildings, and relationships with prominent teachers—Paul Rudolph and the legendary Vincent Scully among them. Stern also recounts the origins of RAMSA and major projects in its history, as well as references the many clients, fellow architects, and professional partners who have peopled his extraordinary career.

Supported by a lively mix of images drawn from Stern's personal archive and other resources, this much-anticipated memoir is interspersed with personal travel slides, images of architectural precedents and the colleagues that have shaped his thinking, and photographs of the many projects he discusses. With a thoughtful afterword by architectural historian Leopoldo Villardi that delves into Stern's process of putting together this extraordinary autobiographical work, Between Memory and Invention is a personal candid assessment of a foremost practitioner, historian, instructor, and advocate of architecture today.

建筑师、历史学家和教育家罗伯特·A·M·斯特恩（Robert A. M. Stern）对当代建筑和他五十年的实践进行了个人和坦率的评估。

50多年来，罗伯特·A·M·斯特恩在世界各地设计了许多非凡的建筑。作为罗伯特·A·M·斯特恩建筑事务所（RAMSA）的创始合伙人，斯特恩曾被菲利普·约翰逊描述为“我在整个教学生涯中遇到的最聪明的年轻人”，最近被彭博社称为“纽约市最有价值的建筑师”。

本书囊括了自传、机构历史和生动的幕后轶事，调查了20世纪60年代至今的建筑世界，以及罗伯特·A·M·斯特恩在其中的关键作用。该书记录了斯特恩的成长岁月、建筑教育和半个世纪的建筑实践，触及了影响他的所有因素。他详细介绍了他在布鲁克林的成长经历，家庭旅行以观察二十世纪的关键建筑，以及与知名教师保罗·鲁道夫（Paul Rudolph）和传奇人物文森特·斯卡利（Vincent Scully）之间的关系。斯特恩还讲述了RAMSA的起源及其历史上的主要项目，以及许多客户、建筑师同行和专业合作伙伴，他们为他非凡的职业生涯提供了帮助。

这本备受期待的回忆录由斯特恩的个人档案和其他资源中提取的生动图像组合而成，穿插着个人旅行幻灯片、建筑先例和影响他思维的同事的图像，以及许多讨论项目的照片。建筑历史学家莱奥波尔多·维拉迪（Leopoldo Villardi）撰写了一篇深思熟虑的后记，深入探讨了斯特恩整理这部非凡的自传作品的过程，本书是对当今建筑界重要的实践者、历史学家、指导者和倡导者的个人坦诚评估。