ARCHITECTS FACT FILE Architect’s Image in B&W
22 April 1926 - 25 June 1992 Glasgow Schooling -Quarry Bank High School , Liverpool Architecture in University of Liverpool (1945) Alvar Alto Medal (1977) RIBA Royal Gold Medal (1980) Pritzker Prize (1981) Praemium Imperiale (1990)
HISTORY FACULTY BUILDING,CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
LIST OF SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS
Andrew Melville Hall , North Haugh St Andrews,1967 Engineering building,Leicester,1963 History Faculty Library , Cambridge, UK, 1967 Neus Staatsgalerie , Stuttgart, Germany,1983 Clore Gallery, London 1987 No 1 Polutry,London,1997 Florey Building ,Oxford ,United Kingdom , 1971 Olivetti Training School , Haslemere ,Surrey , England ,1969 Seeley Historical Library ,Cambridge , 1967 Temasek Polytechnic ,Singapore Headquarter for Siemens AG, Munich , 1969 Southwell Gardens , London ,1959 Three Houses at Hyde Park Gate , London ,1957 Public Housing , Avenham , Lancashire , 1959 Churchill College , Cambridge University ,1958 School dining and assembly hall , Camberwell ,London ,1962 Children's home , Frogmore, Putney , London ,1964
MIDDLE FLOOR PLAN
LOWER FLOOR PLAN
UPPER FLOOR PLAN
UPPER FLOOR PLAN
Engineering building
ELEVATION
Clore gallery
SECTION A
Florey building
In the building it was necessary to have a multi directional approaches . To allow for different cross campus circulation routes four entrance have been provided two of which are at ground level . At the front of the building is an ramp approach by ramp to the staff entrance.
SECTION
The work of James Stirling is permeated by mannerist taste for distortion and paradox in the Engineering Building where the diversity of forms, expressive of the internal functions of the building is a pretext for he liveliest interplay of masses.
ELEVATION
SECTION B
Architecturally, Stirling faculty building arouses great interest and visitors come from all over the world to view it.
Olivetti training school
PREETHI.D, BATCH 2015-2020
ENGINEERING BUILDING
James Frazer Stirling was a magnificent architect with a large vision known to all as “Big Jim". His buildings were complex and controversial, his deeply thoughtful , experimental explorations. His philosophy was constantly evolving along with highly personal ,electric style. Stirling architecture contains enough complex material to offer an infinite variety of lessons to each new generation according to its particular interests and needs.
SIR JAMES FRAZER STIRLING