1st Edition
James Stirling Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture
Edited By Mark Crinson
Copyright 2010
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling’s reputation is based primarily on such seminal buildings as the Leicester University Engineering Building (1959-63, with James Gowan), at one end of his career, and the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1977-83, with Michael Wilford) at the other. Although he denied both labels, his... Read more
1. Introduction – The Formation of a (Post) Modernist Mark Crinson 2. The Black Notebook – Stirling’s Architectural Journal Kept Between 1953 and 1958 3. Notes for a Lecture 4. Influence of Corb on Me Now and When a Student 5. Eight Questions to Stirling and Gowan 6. Royaumont Talk 7. Urban Redevelopment 8. Architecte Anglais: Stirling and Le Corbusier’ Mark Crinson
Biography
Mark Crinson is Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester. His previous books include Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture (1996) and Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (2003).
