Leicester University Engineering Building
Leicester 1959-63, James Stirling and James Gowan
James Stirling’s strong personal style is first seen to emerge in the extraordinary Leicester Engineering Department building, designed in partnership with James Gowan. A slender, almost transparent, tower rises above the projecting forms of the building’s auditoria. This ensemble is then juxtaposed with the industrial toughness of the engineering workshops, setting up a powerful and contradictory geometry.
- Author
- John McKean
- Series editor
- David Jenkins
- Designer
- Mark Vernon-Jones
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press
- 1994
297 × 297mm
60pp
Pb c.20 colour
80 b&w illustrations
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