Building Respect at Yale

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WHEN Robert A. M. Stern was appointed dean of the Yale School of Architecture in 1998, the reaction among a broad swath of students, faculty members and prominent architects was shock mixed with disdainful indignation. Too traditional, they argued, a backward decision for an institution known for producing the progressive architects of tomorrow</h2>

<h2>On Wednesday Mr. Stern, 68, was appointed to a third term at Yale, where for the past nine years he has earned wide admiration as a committed educator with an openness to many different architectural styles, qualities critics often find lacking in the tradition-bound aesthetic of his buildings.</h2>

<p>The architect Frank Gehry, who said in an interview that Mr. Stern’s neo-Classical-style buildings are too anchored in the past, added that Mr. Stern had made Yale “probably the most exciting school in the country right now, maybe in the whole world.”

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