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| Architect | James Stirling |
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| Location | Leicester University, Leicester, England map | |||||||||
| Date | 1959 timeline | |||||||||
| Building Type | academic | |||||||||
| Climate | temperate | |||||||||
| Context | park campus | |||||||||
| Style | Modern | |||||||||
| Notes | large trusses. | |||||||||
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| Discussion | Engineering Building Commentary
"The Engineering Building comprises large ground-level workshops (heavy machinery), covering most of the available site, and a vertical ensemble consisting of office and laboratory towers, lecture theaters and lift and staircase shafts." — James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates. James Stirling, Buildings and Projects. p82. "The work of James Stirling is permeated by a mannerist taste for distortion and paradox, especially at the Engineering School in Leicester (1960-3), where the diversity of forms, expressive of the internal functions of the building, is a pretext for the liveliest interplay of masses." — Mitchell Beazley. The World Atlas of Architecture. p389. | |||||||||
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Peter Arnel and Ted Bickford, ed. James Stirling, Buildings and Projects. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1984. ISBN 0-8478-0448-8. NA 997.S78J34. Color photo of lighted stairwell at night, p87. Color photo of exterior, p83. overall coverage, p82-92. Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. ISBN 0-442-21668-8. LC 84-3543. NA2750.C55 1984. drawings and diagrams, p104-105. — Updated edition available at Amazon.com William J. Curtis. Modern Architecture since 1990. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1987. color photo of exterior, f12, p252. The World Atlas of Architecture. Edited by Mitchell Beazley International Ltd. New York: Portland House, 1988. ISBN 0-517-66875-0. Color photo of Engineering School, p389. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani. Architecture of the 20th Century in Drawings: Utopia and Reality. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1982. ISBN 0-8478-0464-X. LC82-42534. NA2700.M3513. axonometric drawing, f87, p104. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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