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Stirling's Voice: A Detailed Suggestion
This essay tries to attend to the role of details in the work of one architect, James Stirling. The author's argument concerns columns, handrails and windows in his work and proposes that the coherence of the handling of these details demonstrates the emergence of James Stirling as a voice. Stirling spoke of his disinterest in structure as a mode of architectural expression; yet in his work we can trace the evolution of a load‐bearing column support from the simple propositions of the University of Leicester Department of Engineering to the focal role of a mushroom‐headed column in the Library for the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, to its use in an oversized and possibly therefore expressive form in the sadly demolished housing scheme at Runcorn, to the column forms at the Neue Staatsgalerie art‐gallery extension in Stuttgart. The level of detailing reveals a metaphor for structure than structure themselves. Perhaps this may be the quality of Stirling's details: they are both substance and metaphor.
Stirling's Voice: A Detailed Suggestion
This essay tries to attend to the role of details in the work of one architect, James Stirling. The author's argument concerns columns, handrails and windows in his work and proposes that the coherence of the handling of these details demonstrates the emergence of James Stirling as a voice. Stirling spoke of his disinterest in structure as a mode of architectural expression; yet in his work we can trace the evolution of a load‐bearing column support from the simple propositions of the University of Leicester Department of Engineering to the focal role of a mushroom‐headed column in the Library for the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, to its use in an oversized and possibly therefore expressive form in the sadly demolished housing scheme at Runcorn, to the column forms at the Neue Staatsgalerie art‐gallery extension in Stuttgart. The level of detailing reveals a metaphor for structure than structure themselves. Perhaps this may be the quality of Stirling's details: they are both substance and metaphor.
Stirling's Voice: A Detailed Suggestion
Borden, Iain (editor) / Fraser, Murray (editor) / Penner, Barbara (editor) / Dunster, David (author)
2015-03-24
5 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
James Stirling , columns , handrails , windows , architect
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