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James Stirling's untimely death in 1992 cut short an immensely fruitful later phase of a creative career which began in the 1950s. Stirling inaugurated this second period in the Seventies when he established his main London office in partnership with Michael Wilford and devised his ambitious urban-planning proposals for the area round the Cathedral and the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne. International recognition resulted in a host of spectacular commissions for the team, consolidating its reputation and its influence on a younger generation of architects. James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates: Buildings and Projects 1975-1992 is a retrospective documentation of this achievement, detailing the plans and projects that Stirling executed right up until his death. Critical appraisals, technical data and extensive illustrations record many important buildings, including the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; the Sackler Wing extension to the Fogg Museum, Harvard; the Science Centre in Berlin; the Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection at the Tate Gallery, London; the Performing Arts Center at Cornell University, New York State; and the B. Braun Melsungen A.G. buildings at Melsungen in Germany. All these projects testify to Stirling and Wilford's ability to synthesize many types of architectural idiom into work rich with a sense of play and spontaneity. Some of the most celebrated - and often controversial - buildings of recent years are included in this comprehensive summary of an impressive canon of modern British architecture. Their fame is a measure of James Stirling's attainment, which now receives its proper commemoration.

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James Stirling was one of the outstanding British architects of the second half of the 20th century. As a sign of the esteem in which he was held, he won the Pritzker prize in 1981, the architectural equivalent of the Nobel prize, and he was knighted by the Queen of England shortly before his death. His many international commissions included the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and the Sackler Museum at Harvard. The book at hand documents the 58 commissions of the second half of his career--that is, from 1972 to 1992, the year he died at age 56. It constitutes the second of a two-volume set (the first, James Stirling: Buildings and Projects, 1950-1974, Stuttgart, 1975). Stirling's career has been copiously documented in innumerable journal articles, several museum catalogs, and a few important monographs, the most significant of which is James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates (1984). P. Kaufman; Boston Architectural Center

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