Big Jim: The Life and Work of James Stirling - Couverture rigide

Girouard, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701162473 ISBN 13 : 9780701162474

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1998

Synopsis

An authorised biography of James Stirling, the architect who died in 1992. The author traces Stirling's childhood back to Liverpool, his war and postwar years, his role in the buildings of the 1960s and later, and his private life.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

James Stirling is one of the few postwar architects to whom the word genius can be applied. Formidable, ebulient, self-centred, at times outrageous, he pursued architecute and the creation of buildings with a single-minded intensity, evoking hero-worship and sometimes hatred in the process. Mark Girouard traces Stirling's life from his tough boyhood in Liverpool to the revolutionary buildings of the 1960s - the Engineering Buiding for Leicester University, the History Faculty Building at Cambridge and the Florey Building at Oxford - and the acclaimed Stuttgart Art Gallery in 1980. Celebrated abroad, in Britain Stirling's association with Palumbo's plan for a new building in the centre of the City of London divided the architectual world into furious camps, creating fiery debates which lasted until his early death in 1992. The arguments and the passions still reverberate today. Mark Girouard's perceptive, entertaining account combines an intimate picture of the man - his personality, his relationships, his life-style and mania for collecting - with an informed eye.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mark Girouard is a well-known architectural historian whose books include Life in the English Country House and Cities and People. He knew James Stirling for many years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701162473
• ISBN 13: 9780701162474
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible