Leicester Engineering Department Building: Leicester University 1959-63, Stirling and Gowan

Author:   John McKean
Publisher:   Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780714831541


Pages:   60
Publication Date:   02 January 1900
Format:   Paperback
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Leicester Engineering Department Building: Leicester University 1959-63, Stirling and Gowan


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Part of a series of technically informative monographs embracing a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings, this work deals with the engineering department building of Leicester University, and includes a comprehensive set of technical drawings and working details. While still in partnership with James Gowan, the late James Stirling's strong personal style is first seen to emerge in the extraordinary Leicester Engineering Department building. Its slender, almost transparent, tower rises above the projecting forms of its wedge-shaped auditoria. This constructivist inspired ensemble is then juxtaposed with the industrial toughness of the engineering workshops whose saw-tooth factory glazing cuts across its roof at an acute angle, setting up a powerful and contradictory geometry. An in-depth analysis is provided by Malcolm Higgs who worked in Stirling's office during the design and construction of the building in the early 1960s, and watched its progress at first hand.

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Author:   John McKean
Publisher:   Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint:   Phaidon Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 29.70cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780714831541


ISBN 10:   0714831549
Pages:   60
Publication Date:   02 January 1900
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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