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Leicester University engineering building : James Stirling and James Gowan / John McKean.
Fine Arts Library NA997.S78 M35 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKean, John, 1943-
- Series:
- Architecture in detail (London, England)
- Architecture in detail
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gowan, James.
- Stirling, James (James Frazer).
- University of Leicester--Buildings.
- University of Leicester.
- Stirling, James (James Frazer)--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stirling, James.
- Gowan, James--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Buildings.
- Physical Description:
- 60 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Phaidon, 1994.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 60).
- ISBN:
- 0714831549
- OCLC:
- 31691816
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