WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.” I helped Robert A.M. Stern write New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915. My summer job turned into a five-year journey.
It turned out that Bob thought it would be good, and a good test, for me to write the first draft of the article from notes he had made and source material his Columbia students had collected over the years in a New York housing seminar he taught.
It’s a short history of the New York apartment house, with a particular focus on duplex apartments and the courtyard building. Here’s a scan of the article.
