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Martin Stern Jr. (April 9, 1917 - July 28, 2001) was an American architect who was most widely known for his large scale designs and structures in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is credited with originating the concept of the structurally integrated casino resort complex in Las Vegas.
Aug 2, 2001 · Martin Stern Jr., an architect who pioneered the eye-popping Googie-style coffee-shop architecture of Los Angeles and then brought his exuberant vision to the skyline of the Las Vegas strip, died...
Aug 1, 2001 · Martin Stern Jr., the architect who in the mid-20th century designed a significant chunk of Las Vegas’ skyline and such beloved Googie-style structures as Los Angeles’ Ships coffee shops, has...
Martin Stern, Jr. was born in New York in 1917. His family moved to Beverly Hills in time for him to study architecture at nearby University of Southern California. After the war, he moved back to Los Angeles and set up a small practice.
Martin Stern was born in Hilversum in Holland in September 1938. Martin’s father, Rudolph, was a Jewish architect from Berlin and his mother was a non-Jewish woman. Together in 1938 they fled to Belgium and were married.
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Martin Stern Jr., AIA Architect and Associates, and contains 400 cubic feet of materials including 710 drawings from over 300 different projects involving over 100 buildings.
