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sir James Frazer Stirling
sir James Frazer Stirling
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James Stirling (22 April 1926 in Glasgow– 25 June 1992 in London)
was a British architect considered to be among the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20th century.
He is perhaps best known as one of architects who subverted the compositional and theoretical precepts of the first Modern Movement.
His success lay in his ability to incorporate these encyclopedic references subtly, within a strong and muscular, very decisive architecture of strong, confident gestures that aimed to remake urban form.
Life and work
After wartime service, Stirling studied arcitecture from 1945 until 1950 at the University of Liverpool, where Colin Rowe was his teacher.
In 1956 he and James Gowan left their positions to set up a practice as Stirling and Gowan.
Their first built project – the 'Flats at Ham Common' (1955-58) – were regarded as a landmark in the development of 'brutalist' residential architecture.
The best-known results of Stirling & Gowan‘s
collaboration are the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Leicester (1959–63)
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History Faculty Library, Cambridge, 1968
EXONOMETRIC PROJECTION
Florey Building accommodation block the Queen college oxford
In 1963 Stirling set up on his own, taking with him the office assistant Michael Wilford.. He completed a training centre for Olivetti in Haslemere, Surrey and housing for the University of St Andrews.
New partner
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During the 1970s, Stirling's architectural language began from small to very large, as Stirling's architecture became more overtly neoclassical, though it remained deeply imbued with his powerful revised modernism.
Changing way
_Andrew dormitory_Melville_Hall
One of main point
Three important museum projects in Germany (for Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Stuttgart). These projects of the 1970s show him at the zenith of his mature style. Winning the design competition for the Stuttgart project – the Neue Staatsgalerie–
Neue Staatsgalerie
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View point
He loaded its powerful basic concept with a large number of architectural amusements and decorative allusions, which led many to see it as an example of postmodernism – a label which then stuck, but which he himself rejected.
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Pritzer prize
In 1981, he was awarded the renowned Pritzker Prize[1]. After the Staatsgalerie, Stirling received a series of important commissions in England – the Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection at the Tate Britain, London (1980–87), the Tate Liverpool (1984), and No 1 Poultry in London (1986). This work revealed a particular interest in public space, and the meanings that façades and building masses can assume in a constrained urban context.
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The last building completed while Stirling was still alive was the bookshop in the gardens of the Venice Biennale (completed 1991).
The Stirling Prize, a British annual prize for architecture since 1996, was named after him.
TWO IMPORTANT PROJECT
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, James Stirling: 1977-83
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, James Stirling: 1977-83
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, James Stirling: 1977-83
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, James Stirling: 1977-83
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, James Stirling: 1977-83
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, James Stirling: 1977-83
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, James Stirling: 1977-83
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, James Stirling: 1977-83
Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, James Stirling: 1977-83
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
University of Leicester Engineering building
Reference:
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James Stirling Mickel Wellford & associate