Robert A.M. Stern, the renowned architect and founder of the eponymous firm that shaped Manhattan’s luxury residential landscape, has died.  He was 86. His death followed a brief pulmonary illness, his son told the New York Times.   Stern told The Real Deal in a 2009 interview that he “announced” his intention to be an architect around the age of 14, and as a child was “busy playing with blocks, making drawings of hypothetical cities.”  He went on to earn a Bachelor’s in History from Columbia University in 1960 and a master’s degree in architecture from Yale University in 1965. […]

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