Title & Author:

Stirling + Wilford : American buildings / edited by Alan Berman.

Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Artifice books on architecture, [2014]
©2014

Description:

167 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-167).
Four American buildings. School of Architecture, Rice University / Peter Papademetriou ; The Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University / Gary Wolf ; Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University / Brian Carter ; Science Library, University of California at Irvine / Craig Hodgetts -- A transatlantic journey. American dreams? / Brian Carter ; Jim Stirling : synchrony and diachrony / Emmanuel Petit ; Solidified space : the use of the void in Stirling and Wilford's American work / Amanda Reeser Lawrence ; A modern mannerist / Robert Maxwell ; An English eclectic abroad / Nicholas Ray ; Stirling under review / Marco Iuliano ; Modernity and postmodernity in the work of James Stirling and Michael Wilford / Kenneth Frampton.

Summary:

James Stirling and Michael Wilford realised a significant body of work during their partnership. Considered one of the most important international architectural practices of the twentieth century, Stirling and Wilford made an exceptional contribution to contemporary architecture. Young, radical and eccentric, their work rejected the prevalent orthodoxy of the International Style, revisiting instead the early masters of heroic Modernism and achieving legendary status amongst a younger generation of architects. With early work in the UK and then Europe, from the late 1970s the practice designed buildings at four American Universities: Harvard, Rice, Cornell and UC Irvine, as well as a number of unbuilt projects. The Arthur M Sackler Museum at Harvard University, 1984, retains an iconic status, and straddles the postmodern and classical vocabulary that Stirling and Wilford employed at the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, 1984, and No 1 Poultry, completed in 1997, after Stirling's death in 1992. Yet, despite the significance of these projects, until now, the contribution of the practice's work in the United States to the development of late twentieth century architecture has never been fully appraised.Through texts by eminent contributors including Kenneth Frampton, Robert Maxwell and Anthony Vidler, Stirling and Wilford American Buildings reassesses the importance of this body of work, establishing the legacy of the later American work of one of the twentieth century's most influential architectural practices.

ISBN:

9781908967343 (paperback)
190896734X (paperback)

Subject:

Stirling, James (James Frazer) Criticism and interpretation.
Wilford, Michael, 1938-2023 Criticism and interpretation.
Stirling, James Criticism and interpretation.
Wilford, Michael, Criticism and interpretation.
Stirling, James (James Frazer)
Wilford, Michael, 1938-2023
James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture History United States 20th century.
Architecture
United States

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Berman, Alan (Architect), editor.
Papademetriou, Peter C., author.
Wolf, Gary (Architect), author.
Carter, Brian, 1942- author.
Hodgetts, Craig, author.
Petit, Emmanuel, 1973- author.
Lawrence, Amanda Reeser, author.
Maxwell, Robert, 1922-2020, author.
Ray, Nicholas, author.
Iuliano, Marco, author.

Stirling and Wilford : American buildings
American buildings

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289735
Call No.: BIB 232333
Status: Available