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James Stirling (architect)



If Le Corbusier was the most important architect of the first half of the twentieth century, Sir James Frazer Stirling (22 April 1926 in Glasgow – 25 June 1992 in London) was surely the most important and influential architect of the second half, admired by all the other architects of the time and now, in the XXI century, by a new generation. He is perhaps best known for his questioning and subverting of the compositional precepts of the first Modern Movement, and his development of an agitated, mannered reinterpretation of those precepts, into which - much influenced by his friend and teacher, the important architectural theorist and urbanist Colin Rowe - he introduced an eclectic spirit that allowed him to make allusions to the whole sweep of architectural history, from ancient Rome and the Baroque, to the many manifestations of the modern period, from Frank Lloyd Wright to Alvar Aalto.



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