Research Catalog

Title

Jim Stirling and the red trilogy : three radical buildings / edited by Alan Berman.

Publication

London : Frances Lincoln, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Berman, Alan (Alan J.)

Description

160 p. : ill.; 30 cm.

Summary

A re-evaluation of Jim Stirling's three 'red buildings', the University of Leicester Engineering Building, the History Faculty and Library at Cambridge and the residential Florey Building at Queen's College, Oxford.

Subject

• Stirling, James > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• Architecture, Modern > 21st century > Catalogs
• Architecture > England > 20th century
• College buildings > England

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The background. British modern architecture before Stirling and Gowan / Alan Powers ; Stirling before Leicester / Robert Maxwell -- The red trilogy. Understanding the Engineering Department, Leicester / John McKean and Alan Berman ; Understanding the History Faculty, Cambridge / William Fawcett ; Understanding the Florey Building, Oxford / Alan Berman ; Building the future : challenges and failures of post-war technology / Alan Berman -- 'Why do architects love these buildings?' Eva Jiřičná ; Mark Cannata ; Richard Rogers ; Alan Stanton ; Will Alsop ; Norman Foster ; Sunand Prasad ; Richard MacCormac ; Peter Ahrends ; Ian Ritchie ; John Tuomey ; Peter St John ; Ted Cullinan ; M.J. Long ; Edward Jones ; Spencer de Grey ; Glenn Howells ; Bob Allies ; Patrick Lynch ; Graham Haworth ; Shane de Blacam ; John Allan ; Sarah Wigglesworth ; David Kohn -- A difficult reconciliation / Alan Berman.

ISBN

• 9780711231443 (hbk.)
• 0711231443 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 965992100
• SCSB-11482389

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library