James Frazer Stirling : notes from the archive / Anthony Vidler.

Main entry:

Vidler, Anthony.

Title & Author:

James Frazer Stirling : notes from the archive / Anthony Vidler.

Publication:

Description:

303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-297) and index.
Entering the archive -- Stirling at school -- Contextualizing the archive -- Modernism redux, 1950-1954 -- The crisis of rationalism -- Typology redivivus -- New town revisionism -- Context and association -- Analyzing the archive -- Content into form.

Summary:

"The British architect James Frazer Stirling (1924-1992) stimulated impassioned responses among both supporters and detractors, and he continues to be the subject of fierce debate. He earned international renown through such innovative--and frequently controversial--projects as the Leicester University Engineering Building (1959-63); the History Faculty building at Cambridge University (1964-67); the Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1977-84); the Clore Gallery at Tate Britain (1984); and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University (1979-84). Stirling was also a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture, where he trained and influenced many of the current leaders in the field. Fully illustrated with previously unpublished documents and new photography from the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, this book allows for a close examination of design drawings, photographs, and models spanning Stirling's entire career. These materials deepen our understanding of the influences, early formation, approach, and process of an architect whose work resists labeling. Filled with in-depth analytical and critical presentations of exemplary projects and their reception, the volume reveals Stirling to be a remarkably informed and consistent thinker and writer on architecture."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9780300167238 (alk. paper)
0300167237 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Stirling, James (James Frazer) Criticism and interpretation.
Stirling, James Frazer, 1926-1992 Critique et interprétation.
Stirling, James (James Frazer)
Stirling, James 1926-1992
Stirling, James, 1926-1992 analys och tolkning.
James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates Archives.
James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates
Modern movement (Architecture)
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architektur
Museumsbau
Öffentliches Gebäude
Arkitektur historia Storbritannien 1945-
Modernismen (arkitektur)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
Archives
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Stirling, James (James Frazer)

Notes from the archive

Holdings:

Location: Library cage cca productions 270038
Call No.: 2012-4
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library study room cca productions 270039
Call No.: NA44.J29.9 V5 2010
Copy: c. 3
Status: Available

Location: Library cage cca productions 270031
Call No.: 2012-4
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 270040
Call No.: NA44.J29.9 V5 2010
Copy: c. 4
Status: Available

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