Category Archives: James Stirling

Let us now praise famous men…

Revisiting Roma Interrotta. (Standard CiA camera salute – Ed.)

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The British Architect

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Stirling’s Preston Housing

Fifty years ago James Stirling* was commissioned to design new housing for Preston. The scheme was completed in 1962 and was one of his earliest built projects in independent practice. In ‘Complete Works 1950-1974’ the scheme is illustrated alongside a … Continue reading

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Jim and San Souc-i

Electa Bookshop, out of season Ronny Ford has written to us remembering Stirling: In 1991 I made a six-month visit to Italy with the intention of taking in all of the regions and as many of the islands as possible … Continue reading

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WZB

James Stirling’s relationship with his clients and end users is no better demonstrated than the pride with which the architect and his work is presented on the site for Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Social Science Research Centre) in the Kulturforum. The eclectic … Continue reading

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Staatsgalerie reinterpreted

Staatsgalerie (and music school) reinterpreted. James Stirling 22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992

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The Staatsgalerie Downhill

Views of Stirling’s Staatsgalerie tend to show the front of the building with its extraordinary denial of the conventional facade in favour of an array of architectural motifs grounded in a stylised ruin – the approach from Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse invites the … Continue reading

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Encounters with Big Jim: What not to say…

Picture the scene – the garden of an East Anglian manor house in early October in the late 1970s. A group of gauche first year architecture students are enjoying the hospitality of their tutor (the widow of an eminent professor … Continue reading

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Stirling Archive

In 1999 the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal purchased the archive of James Stirling and Michael Wilford’s office, including much material from Stirling’s previous architectural firms. In the linked edition of MOQDOC (a Canadian newsletter for art libraries and … Continue reading

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Rogue Mail

Stirling stamps. James Stirling 22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992

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“not enough Jim.”

Doris Lockhart Saatchi has written about the artist Ben Johnson and his encounter with James Stirling. Johnson became attracted to the artistic issues raised by architecture in 1973, when he first saw James Stirling’s Leicester University Department of Engineering building. … Continue reading

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Frankenstein in Leicester

Leicester University Engineering Building Architect: Stirling and Gowan 1959 In the engineering building at the University of Leicester by Stirling and Gowan, the profession was presented with its Frankenstein, amidst a concert of maidenish squeaks that have not yet died … Continue reading

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