Monthly Archives: June 2007

The Staatsgalerie Downhill

Views of Stirling’s Staatsgalerie tend to show the front of the building with its extraordinary denial of the conventional facade in favour of an array of architectural motifs grounded in a stylised ruin – the approach from Konrad-Adenauer-Strasse invites the … Continue reading

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Encounters with Big Jim: What not to say…

Picture the scene – the garden of an East Anglian manor house in early October in the late 1970s. A group of gauche first year architecture students are enjoying the hospitality of their tutor (the widow of an eminent professor … Continue reading

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Milano TV

Continuity in Architecture caught in the Milanese media net: LINK

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Card No.16

The coastline of Britain, longer for dogs than men.

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Stirling Archive

In 1999 the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal purchased the archive of James Stirling and Michael Wilford’s office, including much material from Stirling’s previous architectural firms. In the linked edition of MOQDOC (a Canadian newsletter for art libraries and … Continue reading

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Rogue Mail

Stirling stamps. James Stirling 22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992

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Four Stars

CiA staffer Eamonn Canniffe and his co-author Peter Blundell Jones get a four star review from Alan Powers in this week’s Building Design for Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945-1990. CLICK for the full review in BD Online. Other Books … Continue reading

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The Show

The External Examiners are in so these are just snatched photos of this year’s CiA Bachelor of Architecture show. The exhibition (in colour!) opens at 6pm tomorrow (Friday 15 June 2007) on the fifth floor of the Chatham Building. See … Continue reading

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Addio Anno Cinque!

Continuity in Architecture’s academic year draws to a close with the submission of final projects and this final film record of Year 5’s MOdAM proposals for a Museum and School of Fashion. In the next academic year students will embark … Continue reading

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“not enough Jim.”

Doris Lockhart Saatchi has written about the artist Ben Johnson and his encounter with James Stirling. Johnson became attracted to the artistic issues raised by architecture in 1973, when he first saw James Stirling’s Leicester University Department of Engineering building. … Continue reading

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Frankenstein in Leicester

Leicester University Engineering Building Architect: Stirling and Gowan 1959 In the engineering building at the University of Leicester by Stirling and Gowan, the profession was presented with its Frankenstein, amidst a concert of maidenish squeaks that have not yet died … Continue reading

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Messages from Portugal

Our recent post about Evora has led to some interesting correspondence with Portuguese architects and students. rui-mello sends us some images of the work of Joaquim Massena. The project is a theatre in Oporto. The work of Massena, which appears … Continue reading

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