Liverpool School of Architecture (role unspecified)
James Frazer Stirling (architect)
James Frazer Stirling (archive creator)
Title
Plan of Town Centre and Development of Community Centre
Dates of creation
1948-[1975?], predominant 1949-1950
Level of archival description
File 6
Extent and Medium
29 drawings (including 15 reprographic copies)
0.02 l.m. of textual documents
6 photographs
Scope and Content
File documents a student project for a Plan of Town Centre and Development of Community Centre, in Newton Aycliffe, England, United Kingdom. Project was submitted in 1950 as Stirling's undergraduate thesis in his fifth year at the Liverpool School of Architecture. Material in this file was produced between 1948 and probably 1975.
File contains presentation drawings and panels, a publication drawing and a few working drawings. Photographic materials includes views of drawings and of study and presentation models. File also contains a bound thesis.
Title: Floor and roof plans, rendered elevations, several sections and exterior perspectives, Plan of Town Centre and Development of Community Centre
Dates of creation: circa 1948
Form: drawings
Catalogued items within this file 8
People:
James Frazer Stirling (archive creator)
Description:
floor and roof plans, rendered elevations, several sections and two exterior perspectives for Community Centre, also photographs of the original presentation drawings for the Community Centre and of rendered plans showing the flow of "Public circulation" on each floor
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Stage and Purpose:
presentation panels
Extent and Medium:
9 drawings
Dimensions:
sheet (smallest): 26 x 51 cm
sheet (largest): 76 x 51 cm
Physical Description:
Mounted on panels.
Credit line:
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Town centre and community centre, Newton Aycliffe, England (thesis, Liverpool School of Architecture): plans and views of plans, elevations, sections and perspectives
Title: Set of working drawings, Plan of Town Centre and Development of Community Centre
Dates of creation: circa 1940-1950
Form: drawings
Catalogued items within this file 1
People:
James Frazer Stirling (archive creator)
Description:
Incomplete set of reprographic copies of numbered working drawings, showing a foundation and drainage plan, floor plans and sections, details for the structural frame, window, and staircase, as well as a plan and section for a typical bay
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Stage and Purpose:
working drawings
Extent and Medium:
10 reprographic copies
Dimensions:
sheet (smallest): 50 x 77 cm
sheet (largest): 54 x 77 cm
Credit line:
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Title: Views of presentation drawings and of the publication drawing, Plan of Town Centre and Development of Community Centre
Dates of creation: circa 1948-1950
Form: drawings
Catalogued items within this file 4
People:
James Frazer Stirling (archive creator)
Description:
views of presentation drawings and of the publication drawing, views of a preliminary model for the Community Centre which is otherwise not present in the project documents, views of no longer extant models and presentation drawings for the "Town Centre Lay-out" scheme, one mounted photograph originally bound in the thesis showing the presentation perspective for the community centre
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
3 reprographic copies
1 photograph
Credit line:
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Title: Views of a model and presentation drawings, Plan of Town Centre and Development of Community Centre
Dates of creation: circa 1948-1950
Form: photographs
Catalogued items within this file 1
People:
James Frazer Stirling (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
6 photographs
2 reprographic copies
Physical Description:
All but one of the photographs are mounted on board.
Credit line:
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
