#books #architecture | James Stirling : revisionary modernist

James Stirling : revisionary modernist / Amanda Reeser Lawrence.

Yale University Press, New Haven (Connecticut) [etc.] : 2012

ix, 237 p. : il.

ISBN 9780300170054

Stirling, James, 1926-1992.

Modernismo (Arte)

Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Inglaterra.

Sbc Aprendizaje A-72STIRLING JAM

http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1788442~S1*spi

James Stirling (1926–1992) was one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. His formally inventive yet historically informed designs inspired a generation of architects in his native England and throughout the world. “James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist” is the first in-depth, book-length analysis of the architect's work. Amanda Reeser Lawrence focuses on six of Stirling's projects from the early 1950s through the late 1970s, offering detailed formal analysis of the buildings and drawings while also mapping his relationship to a broader architectural and cultural context. Though it is widely held that Stirling took a mid-career turn toward postmodernism, Lawrence shows that he was undeniably modern throughout his career. She clarifies the ways in which Stirling understood modernism as inextricably linked to the past and placed his own work in what he termed a "dialogue with architectural tradition."

Amanda Reeser Lawrence is assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Northeastern University and is founding coeditor of “Praxis: A Journal of Writing + Building”.