Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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born digital
AP140.S2.SS4.D14.P1
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1 CD containing the James Stirling lecture at Columbia University in 1977, reformatted from a cassette tape.
1977
James Stirling Lecture at Columbia University
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AP140.S2.SS4.D14.P1
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1 CD containing the James Stirling lecture at Columbia University in 1977, reformatted from a cassette tape.
born digital
1977
textual records
AP140.S2.SS4.D7.P3
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lecture notes by James Stirling including on a document, issued 9 November 1961 from Yale University, Department of Architecture, titled "Master's Class and 4th Year Design - Problem III: Pierson-Saga Science Community at Yale", and undated lecture notes on housing solutions in English cities, written on California hotel stationary
Lecture notes by James Stirling including on a document
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AP140.S2.SS4.D7.P3
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lecture notes by James Stirling including on a document, issued 9 November 1961 from Yale University, Department of Architecture, titled "Master's Class and 4th Year Design - Problem III: Pierson-Saga Science Community at Yale", and undated lecture notes on housing solutions in English cities, written on California hotel stationary
textual records
archives
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Fonds
AP140
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The James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford. It pertains to their work as architectural students, and to the architectural and urban planning projects by the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan; James Stirling; James Stirling and Partner; James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates; Michael Wilford and Partners; Michael Wilford GmbH; and Wilford Schupp Architekten GmbH, as well as by the firms of Michael Wilford Architects and Michael Wilford + MUMA. Significant British and German projects designed by the firms of James Stirling and Partner and successive firms are particularly well represented in the fonds.
circa 1939-2004
James Stirling / Michael Wilford fonds
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The James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford. It pertains to their work as architectural students, and to the architectural and urban planning projects by the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan; James Stirling; James Stirling and Partner; James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates; Michael Wilford and Partners; Michael Wilford GmbH; and Wilford Schupp Architekten GmbH, as well as by the firms of Michael Wilford Architects and Michael Wilford + MUMA. Significant British and German projects designed by the firms of James Stirling and Partner and successive firms are particularly well represented in the fonds.
archives
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Fonds
circa 1939-2004
textual records
AP140.S2.SS4.D12.P1
textual records
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AP140.S2.SS4.D7
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File documents lectures and writings by James Stirling. Material in this file was produced between 1961 and 1991. File contains textual records.
1961-1981
Lectures and Writings by James Stirling
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AP140.S2.SS4.D7
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File documents lectures and writings by James Stirling. Material in this file was produced between 1961 and 1991. File contains textual records.
File 7
1961-1981
graphic materials
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89 poster(s)
AP140.S2.SS10.D3.P14
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posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and Michael Wilford, for James Stirling Memorial, for various exhibitions of the projects of the successive firms of James Stirling, including The Rally exhibition at Art Net and the Roma Interrotta exhibition, also screen print by Folon 'Pour James Stirling'
Posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and Michael Wilford
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AP140.S2.SS10.D3.P14
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posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and Michael Wilford, for James Stirling Memorial, for various exhibitions of the projects of the successive firms of James Stirling, including The Rally exhibition at Art Net and the Roma Interrotta exhibition, also screen print by Folon 'Pour James Stirling'
graphic materials
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89 poster(s)
graphic materials
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8 poster(s)
AP140.S2.SS10.D3.P7
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posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and for various exhibitions of the projects of the successive firms of James Stirling
Posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and for various exhibitions
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AP140.S2.SS10.D3.P7
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posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and for various exhibitions of the projects of the successive firms of James Stirling
graphic materials
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8 poster(s)
graphic materials
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8 poster(s)
AP140.S2.SS10.D3.P9
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posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and for various exhibitions of the projects of the successive firms of James Stirling
Posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and for various exhibitions
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AP140.S2.SS10.D3.P9
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posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and for various exhibitions of the projects of the successive firms of James Stirling
graphic materials
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8 poster(s)
graphic materials
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9 poster(s)
AP140.S2.SS10.D3.P11
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posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and for various exhibitions of the projects of the successive firms of James Stirling
Posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and for various exhibitions
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AP140.S2.SS10.D3.P11
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posters mostly for lectures by James Stirling and for various exhibitions of the projects of the successive firms of James Stirling
graphic materials
Quantity:
9 poster(s)