"Plan of Town Centre and Development of Community Centre for Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham" (thesis, Liverpool School of Architecture)

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James Frazer Stirling (author)
James Frazer Stirling (student)
James Frazer Stirling (architect)
Liverpool School of Architecture (educational institution)
James Frazer Stirling (archive creator)

Title:

"Plan of Town Centre and Development of Community Centre for Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham" (thesis, Liverpool School of Architecture)

Date:

1949-1950

Description:

bound 88 page thesis includes historical, sociological and physical contexts, the programme for each project, "Town Centre Lay-out" and "Development of the Community Centre", a description and explanation of the design, a bibliography, and a list of buildings visited; content includes typescripts, mounted photographs of presentation drawings and models, reworked reprographic copies of maps, schematic master plans, preliminary schemes, samples for interior colour schemes, photographs of no longer extant models and of presentation drawings for the "Town Centre Lay-out" scheme, loose material consists of an original and a photocopy of half of page 71, and mounted photographs of a preliminary model for the Community Centre and of an unidentified building with its ground floor structure exposed

Form:
textual records

Quantity / Object type:
1 textual record(s)

Dimensions:

book (closed): 26.2 x 21 x 2.8 cm sheet (irreg.): 14,7 x 18,2 cm sheet: 29,5 x 21 cm

Reference number:

AP140.S1.SS1.D6.P6.1

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Several pages have been cut out of the bound thesis, including photographs of presentation drawings and models for the Community Centre. - There are four photographs mounted on both sides of a piece of cardboard which are part of the loose material included with the bound thesis.

Credit line:
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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