#books #architecture | James Stirling

James Stirling / edited by Marco Iuliano, Francesca Serrazanetti.
Moleskine, Milano : 2015.
144 p. : il.
Colección: Inspiration and Process in Architecture
ISBN 9788867324781
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Gran Bretaña.
Stirling, James, 1926-1992.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72STIRLING JAM
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Drawing on original documentation –(sketches, photographs and the iconic axonometrics ) the book explores the creative process of James Stirling: from the early inspirations of Liverpools docks to his devotion to Le Corbusier, acknowledging the fundamental role of the partnerships with James Gowan and Michael Wilford. Described by his mentor Colin Rowe as an architectural connoisseur, Stirling analyses the past through relentless observational skills and elaborates it as a source of creativity and as a context to respect. The most eccentric British architect leaves a legacy that is not confined to history alone, but it continues to be paradigmatic for generations of architects to come.

#books #architecture | The architecture of James Stirling and his partners James Gowan and Michael Wilford

The architecture of James Stirling and his partners James Gowan and Michael Wilford : a study of architectural creativity in the twentieth century / Geoffrey H. Baker.
Ashgate, Farnham, England [etc.] : 2011.
xxi, 489 p. : il.
ISBN 9781409409267
Arquitectura postmoderna.
Gowan, James, 1923-
James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates.
Stirling, James, 1926-1992.
Wilford, Michael, 1938-
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72STIRLING ARC
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Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century. This book provides the most comprehensive critical survey of Stirling's work to date, charting the development of his ideas from his formative years, through his partnership with James Gowan, on to his period in practice as sole partner; and finally, his partnership with Michael Wilford. Using archival material, extensive interviews with his partners and others who worked for him, together with analytical examination of key buildings, this detailed critical examination explains his philosophy, working method and design strategy. In doing so, it sheds new light on the atelier structure of his office and who did what on his major buildings.

Geoffrey Baker is the first to analyse in depth the articulation systems used in major projects undertaken by Stirling. He confirms that the Staatsgalerie complex at Stuttgart does not demonstrate Stirling's interest in post modernism but rather an enhanced sensitivity towards context informed by his growing allegiance to the classical canon. Baker explains how this important development in his work, powerfully influenced by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, is consummated in perhaps the finest of Stirling's uncompleted works, the extension to London's National Gallery.

In a discussion of his mature works, Baker explains how Stirling's work can be understood in terms of several interconnected ideas. These include surrealism, historicism, myth and metaphor, inconsistency and ambiguity, bi-lateral symmetry, the garden, rusticity and arcadia, and the archetype, seen as the repository of the collective architectural memory. As well as discussing his interests and those who influenced Stirling, the book compares his oeuvre with that of the pioneers of modern architecture, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier.

This book charts a remarkable career, and offers invaluable insights not only into the masterly, timeless architecture, but also into the man himself: charismatic, irreverent, courageous, serious; sometimes rude, often stubborn, belligerent, yet gentle. He was endlessly inventive and deeply dedicated to his art, producing buildings that reflect all of the above, buildings that are magnificent and ultimately humane.

#libros #arquitectura | Arquia Tesis 22 | Tránsitos de la forma : presencia de Le Corbusier en la obra de Stirling y Siza

Tránsitos de la forma : presencia de Le Corbusier en la obra de Stirling y Siza / Enrique de Teresa.
Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, Barcelona : 2007.
223 p. : il.
[Tesis Universidad de Valladolid, Departamento de Teoría de la Arquitectura y Proyectos arquitectónicos. Fecha defensa: 2004-06-28].
Colección: Arquia-tesis ; 22.
ISBN 9788493138813
Arquitectura -- Teoría.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.01 TRA
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Hay que entender este texto de Enrique de Teresa como una reflexión acerca de la arquitectura moderna. Por ello, nada más pertinente que escoger la figura de Le Corbusier para iniciarlo, pues creo que estamos ya en condiciones de afirmar que Le Corbusier ha sido el arquitecto del siglo XX que más influencia ha tenido en la arquitectura moderna. Ninguno como él tuvo presente en su trabajo las técnicas, por un lado, y el deseo de utopía, por otro; ninguno como él tan osado, tan decidido a ofrecer a sus colegas, a la sociedad, un nuevo lenguaje. Pero si Le Corbusier es el arquitecto moderno por antonomasia en la primera mitad del siglo XX, James Stirling y Álvaro Siza bien pueden ser considerados como tales en la agitada, incierta y apasionante segunda mitad. Stirling fue, sin ninguna duda, un arquitecto clave para entender los afanes de la arquitectura occidental al final de los años cincuenta y principios de los sesenta, estableciendo una iconografía que fue efímera, más no por ello dejó de ser intensa. La obra de Siza, como bien se indica en el texto, implica una reflexión sobre la realidad y su modo de ser, percibida mediante la acentuación de la experiencia concreta de los espacios y de los lugares.

Enrique de Teresa. Arquitecto por la Escuela Técnica Superior de Barcelona en 1983 y doctor por la ETSA de Valladolid en 2004. Profesor de Proyectos en esta última de 1983 a 1989 y, desde esa fecha hasta la actualidad profesor de la misma asignatura en la ETSA de Madrid, dentro de la unidad docente de Juan Navarro Baldeweg. Profesor invitado y conferenciante en diversas universidades, ha realizado estudios críticos sobre temas de la arquitectura moderna publicados en distintas revistas y libros. Después de un período de formación en el estudio de Rafael Moneo entre 1973 y 1981, comienza su actividad profesional donde ha obtenido distintos premios en concursos, así como por los edificios construidos. Entre estos últimos cabe destacar las obras de rehabilitación y adecuación del castillo de Fuensaldaña como sede provisional de las Cortes de Castilla y León, el Mercado de Abastos y el Centro cultural Isabel de Farnesio, ambos en Aranjuez. Entre las obras recientes hay que destacar el Museo de la Ciencia de Valladolid, encontrándose en ejecución los dos últimos proyectos premiados: el edificio de laboratorios y despachos para la Facultad de Ciencias de Valladolid y la Torre del Agua para la Exposición Internacional de Zaragoza 2008.

#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

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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”.

book | James Stirling : early unpublished wtrinting on architecture

James Stirling : early unpublished writings on architecture / edited by Mark Crinson.
London [etc.] : Routledge, 2010.
146 p. : il. bl. y n.
ISBN 9780415550598*
Materias:
Stirling, James, 1926-1992.
Arquitectura - Teoría.
Arquitectura - Siglo XX.
Biblioteca A-72 STIRLING JAM

James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling’s reputation is based primarily on such seminal buildings as the Leicester University Engineering Building (1959-63, with James Gowan), at one end of his career, and the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1977-83, with Michael Wilford) at the other. Although he denied both labels, his work is seen as central to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism and his buildings attracted commentary and theory from the leading architectural thinkers of the day (including Frampton, Tafuri, Eisenman and Banham). Despite his significance, however, there has been very little recent research or creative re-interpretation of his work.

This fascinating insight into Stirling’s work presents previously unavailable writings by him as well as new research on his early career, including:

• 'The Black Notebook' – the journal he kept in the mid-1950s
• the recorded talk he gave to the 'Team 10' group in 1962, as well as the discussion that followed that talk
• three sets of notes for lectures he gave
• an interview with Stirling and Gowan
• essays by the editor placing the texts in the context of Stirling’s early work and discussing Stirling’s relation to Le Corbusier.

Profusely illustrated, with many photographs taken by Stirling himself, this book gives fresh understanding of Stirling’s early career and the reasons why avant-garde architecture in post-war Britain became so widely influential outside the country.

Author Bio
Mark Crinson is Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester. His previous books include Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture (1996) and Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (2003).