Stirling And Gowan

Author : Mark Crinson
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780300177282
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stirling and Gowan written by Mark Crinson and published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Formulas, free plans, and a Piranesian city -- Third generation -- Junk, bunk, and tomorrow -- The cube and the pile-up -- The uses of nostalgia -- The mechanical hobgoblin -- Aftermath.

Author : Geoffrey H. Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351894641
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of James Stirling and His Partners James Gowan and Michael Wilford written by Geoffrey H. Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century. This book provides the most comprehensive critical survey of Stirling's work to date, charting the development of his ideas from his formative years, through his partnership with James Gowan, on to his period in practice as sole partner; and finally, his partnership with Michael Wilford. Using archival material, extensive interviews with his partners and others who worked for him, together with analytical examination of key buildings, this detailed critical examination explains his philosophy, working method and design strategy. In doing so, it sheds new light on the atelier structure of his office and who did what on his major buildings. Geoffrey Baker is the first to analyse in depth the articulation systems used in major projects undertaken by Stirling. He confirms that the Staatsgalerie complex at Stuttgart does not demonstrate Stirling's interest in post modernism but rather an enhanced sensitivity towards context informed by his growing allegiance to the classical canon. Baker explains how this important development in his work, powerfully influenced by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, is consummated in perhaps the finest of Stirling's uncompleted works, the extension to London's National Gallery. In a discussion of his mature works, Baker explains how Stirling's work can be understood in terms of several interconnected ideas. These include surrealism, historicism, myth and metaphor, inconsistency and ambiguity, bi-lateral symmetry, the garden, rusticity and arcadia, and the archetype, seen as the repository of the collective architectural memory. As well as discussing his interests and those who influenced Stirling, the book compares his oeuvre with that of the pioneers of modern architecture, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier. This book charts a remarkable career, and offers invaluable insights not only into the masterly, timeless architecture, but also into the man himself: charismatic, irreverent, courageous, serious; sometimes rude, often stubborn, belligerent, yet gentle. He was endlessly inventive and deeply dedicated to his art, producing buildings that reflect all of the above, buildings that are magnificent and ultimately humane.

Author : John McKean
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714831541
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leicester Engineering Building written by John McKean and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late twentieth century. He established his world-wide reputation in the 1960s while still in partnership with James Gowan, and his strong personal style is first seen to emerge in the extraordinary Leicester University Engineering Building, the last project to be completed by the partnership. Its slender, almost transparent, tower rises above the projecting forms of its wedge-shaped auditoria. This constructivist inspired ensemble is juxtaposed with the industrial toughness of the engineering workshops whose saw-tooth factory glazing cuts across its roof at an acute angle, setting up a powerful and contradictory geometry.

Author : Alan Berman
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 9780711231443
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jim Stirling and the Red Trilogy written by Alan Berman and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-evaluation of three 'red buildings', designed by Jim Stirling: the University of Leicester Engineering Building (and James Gowan), the History Faculty and Library at Cambridge and the residential Florey Building at Queen's College, Oxford. These are buildings much praised by architects, yet hated by the members of the universities that use them. Alan Berman has drawn together essays which put the buildings in their historical context, and which explore both their radical features and their technical failings. In addition, twenty-four of today's most famous architects - including Will Alsop, Norman Foster, Richard MacCormac and Richard Rogers - explain and partly seek to defend, the importance of these radical and controversial buildings. With top contributors and newly commissioned photography, as well as stunning drawings taken from the Jim Stirling archives, this book attempts a serious re-engagement with the continuing debate between modern architects and the public.

Author : James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Stirling, Buildings and Projects written by James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1984 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Stirling written by Robert Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in 1923, graduating from the School of Architecture at Liverpool University in 1950, James Stirling ranks as one of the most interesting figures to emerge in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. His activity lasted from 1950 until 1992, the year of his death. His work exemplified a continuous and undogmatic research, in which modern architecture is constantly redefined through the attention given to its social content and its physical context."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : James Frazer Stirling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Stirling written by James Frazer Stirling and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished writings by and about James Stirling (1924-1992), arguably the most influential and controversial post-war British architect.

Author : Peter C. Papademetriou
Publisher : Artifice Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781908967343
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stirling + Wilford written by Peter C. Papademetriou and published by Artifice Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Anthony Vidler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300167238
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Frazer Stirling written by Anthony Vidler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stan Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615466156
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than a Building? Architecture on Trial written by Stan Allen and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Than a Building? Architecture on Trial: Stirling and Gowan's Leicester Engineering Building brings together original interviews with the architects of the Leicester Engineering Building, James Gowan and Michael Wilford, with critical voices from Stan Allen, Joseph Bedford, Kenneth Frampton and Irenee Scalbert.