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Leicester University Engineering Building, Leicester, England, United Kingdom
circa 1959-1984
File 23
File documents an executed project for the Leicester University Engineering Building, Leicester, England, United Kingdom. Material in this file was produced between 1959 and 1984.
File contains design development drawings, working drawings, presentation drawings, detail drawings, record drawings, photographic materials, photomechanical prints, textual records and a printing plate.
Material in this project series was likely kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.
Leicester Leicester England United Kingdom
Documents are in English and German.
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plan obliques for an early design, a sketch axonometric for the glazing of the stairs of the laboratories tower block, and a perspective showing a more developed design for the building
3 design development drawing(s)
Graphite and coloured pencil on translucent paper
sheet (smallest): 39 x 40 cm sheet (largest): 62 x 37 cm
- The early design development drawing for two plan obliques is folded. The sketch axonometric for the teaching laboratories stair glazing and the earlier perspective were in mats stamped "Engineering Building. Leicester University. 1959-63".
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
working drawings including a site plan, block and grading plans, floor plans, utility plans, elevations, sections, and a perspective for an earlier design
38 working drawing(s)
sheets (smallest): 35 x 36 cm sheets (largest): 84 x 104 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0534
25 record drawing(s)
sheets: 60 x 84 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0535
shop drawings by the glazing contractor Faulkner Greene & Co. for the patent glazing of the south block of workshops and the entrance hall
6 working drawing(s)
sheets: 61 x 92 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0537
rendered site plan, floor plans, partial plans, elevations for the penultimate and final designs, several cross sections and partial sections, a partial elevation, sections and plans for the head of the chimney flue, a sectional axonometric for the entrance podium, and a few plan obliques for the building; also a freehand axonometric showing the distribution of the functions and the circulation patterns for students and vehicles
24 presentation drawing(s)
Graphite and ink on translucent paper
sheet (smallest): 26 x 40 cm sheet (largest): 58 x 76 cm
- The second floor presentation drawing, the penultimate east elevation, the cross section through the access galleries, the cross section for the one-storey workshop, and the Engineering Building plan oblique were each in mats stamped "Engineering Building Leicester University 1959-63".
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0538
Objects that have been catalogued:
detail sketches describing the defects and proposed remedial work to the exterior tiling for the office block, and for the stair and lift cores; includes a full-scale detail section and plan, and an axonometric that relates to water penetration through the louvres
5 detail drawing(s)
Graphite and ink on translucent paper
sheet (smallest): 33 x 21 cm sheet (largest): 71 x 64 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0539
16 photomechanical print(s)
Photomechanical prints and an internegative
sheet (smallest): 47 x 43 cm sheet (largest): 67 x 45 cm negative: 66 x 51 cm
- The internegative is mounted on a plastic sheet, with adhered red masking paper.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0540
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints and chromogenic colour prints
photographic materials: 0.02 l.m.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0542
Objects that have been catalogued:
views of design development, presentation and publication drawings, and views of drawings not otherwise present in the project documents, including a sketch axonometric showing an alternative design for the glazing of the stairs of the laboratories tower block, two plan obliques for an early design, and a diagrammatic plan and elevations for the workshop roof; includes a view of a caricature of the Leicester University Engineering Building as a ship
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0543
views of the presentation drawings and of the exterior and interior of the completed building, including some details; also a view of a letter from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, T. A. F. Noble, to James Stirling, dated 19th February 1964, concerning an article in the magazine 'New Statesman' by Reyner Banham on the Engineering Building
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
photographic materials: 0.03 l.m.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0544
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0545
Objects that have been catalogued:
views of the building site and of the exterior and interior of the completed building, including details and aerial views; also views of a preliminary model for the Engineering Building not otherwise present in the project documents and of a collage by Nils-Ole Lund featuring the Leicester University Engineering Building
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0546
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0547
views of design development, presentation and publication drawings, and views of drawings (not otherwise present in the project documents), including a sketch axonometric showing an alternative design for the glazing of the stairs of the laboratories tower block, two plan obliques for an early design, and a diagrammatic plan and elevations for the workshop roof; includes views of a caricature of the Leicester University Engineering Building as a ship and a view of a letter from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, T. A. F. Noble, to James Stirling, dated 19th February 1964, concerning an article in the magazine 'New Statesman' by Reyner Banham on the Engineering Building
1 negative(s)
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0548
1 negative(s)
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0549
views of the building site and of the exterior and interior of the completed building, including details; also views of a preliminary model for the Engineering Building not otherwise present in the project documents, of a collage by Nils-Ole Lund featuring the Leicester University Engineering Building, and of British postage stamps showing the Engineering Building
1 photographic material(s)
Colour transparencies, gelatin silver prints, and negatives
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0550
1 transparency(ies)
Colour transparencies
- The colour transparencies are in a single length of uncut film, rolled and enclosed in a metal cannister.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0551
1 negative(s)
Glass negative
negative: 17 x 22 cm
Glass negatives. Manipulate with care.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0410
Caricature of the Leicester University Engineering Building as a ship, drawn by a student for a menu cover for the first annual dinner of the Engineering Society; also includes clippings, photocopies of photographs, a postcard of a painting by Ben Johnson, and a caricature of James Stirling with an umbrella in the History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge (AP140.S2.SS1.D26.P29). The textual records are dated "between 1963 and 1994" based on the completion date of the project, 1963, and on the latest date inscribed on one of the objects, 1994.
1 textual record(s)
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0552
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 file(s)
folder: 24 x 36 x 2 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0553
1 printing plate(s)
Metal
plate (irreg.): 10 x 5 x 2 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Legs de la famille Stirling/
Bequest of the Stirling family
140-0641
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