On October 26th, Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, was presented with the Municipal Arts Society’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal. The MAS’s highest honor, the medal is presented "to individuals who, by their work and deeds, have made an
outstanding contribution to New York City" and is given in Mrs.
Onassis’ name in recognition of "her tireless efforts to preserve and
protect New York’s great architecture."

The MAS cited Dean Stern’s “early and ardent advocacy for the preservation of New York’s twentieth-century buildings,” and lauded him as “a champion of historic preservation.” Stern, the author of Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism, joins past winners and fellow Yale University Press authors including Ada Louise Huxtable, Isamu Noguchi, and Paul Goldberger.