Stirling and Gowan : architecture from austerity to affluence / Mark Crinson.

Main entry:

Crinson, Mark.

Title & Author:

Stirling and Gowan : architecture from austerity to affluence / Mark Crinson.

Publication:

Description:

viii, 343 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Originally published as Volume 34, Issue 4 of Art History"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-328) and index.
Introduction -- Formulas, free plans, and a Piranesian city -- Third generation -- Junk, bunk, and tomorrow -- The cube and the pile-up -- The uses of nostalgia -- The mechanical hobgoblin -- Aftermath.

Summary:

James Stirling (1924-1992) is acclaimed as the most influential and controversial modern British architect. His partnership with James Gowan (b. 1923) between 1956 and 1963 put postwar British architecture on the international map, and their Leicester University Engineering Building became an iconic monument for a new kind of modernism. Mark Crinson's book is the most thoroughly researched study of Stirling and Gowan's partnership to date. Based on extensive interviews and archival research, Crinson argues that their work was the product of two equally creative partners whose different concerns produced a dynamic aesthetic. He gives an in-depth account of their training and early careers, their relation to key architects and movements of the time, and the commissioning, design, and construction of their work. This critical reassessment dispels previous myths and inaccuracies regarding their partnership and analyzes how ideas about mannerism, modernism, nostalgia, community, consumerism, Victorian cities, and institutional typologies influenced their designs. Stirling and Gowan positions their avant-garde creations within a larger context as creative responses to Britain's postwar deindustrialization and the shift from austerity to affluence.

ISBN:

9780300177282 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300177283 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Stirling, James (James Frazer) Criticism and interpretation.
Gowan, James Criticism and interpretation.
Gowan, James.
Stirling, James (James Frazer)
Architecture Great Britain History 20th century.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture.
Arkitektur Storbritannien 1900-talet.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Architecture from austerity to affluence

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320382
Call No.: 320382
Status: Available

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