Leicester University Engineering Building: James Stirling and James Gowan: Leicester University 1959-63, Stirling and Gowan - Brossura

McKean, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0714831549 ISBN 13: 9780714831541

Casa editrice: Phaidon Inc Ltd, 1900

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

John McKean is head of interior design at the University of Brighton School of Architecture and Interior Design.

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Book by McKean John

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Phaidon Inc Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0714831549
• ISBN 13: 9780714831541
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 60