Engineering Building
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 | Engineering Building |
| Designer | James Stirling |
| Location | Leicester University, Leicester |
| Date | 1959 |
| Building Type | academic |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | park campus |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | large trusses. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Engineering_Building.html |
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"The Engineering Building comprises large ground-level workshops (heavy machinery), covering most of the available site, and a vertical ensemble consisting of office and laboratory towers, lecture theaters and lift and staircase shafts."
— James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates. James Stirling, Buildings and Projects. p82.
"The work of James Stirling is permeated by a mannerist taste for distortion and paradox, especially at the Engineering School in Leicester (1960-3), where the diversity of forms, expressive of the internal functions of the building, is a pretext for the liveliest interplay of masses."
— Mitchell Beazley. The World Atlas of Architecture. p389.
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Peter Arnel and Ted Bickford, ed. James Stirling, Buildings and Projects. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1984. ISBN 0-8478-0448-8. NA 997.S78J34. Color photo of lighted stairwell at night, p87. Color photo of exterior, p83. overall coverage, p82-92.
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. ISBN 0-442-21668-8. LC 84-3543. NA2750.C55 1984. drawings and diagrams, p104-105.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
William J. Curtis. Modern Architecture since 1990. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1987. color photo of exterior, f12, p252.
The World Atlas of Architecture. Edited by Mitchell Beazley International Ltd. New York: Portland House, 1988. ISBN 0-517-66875-0. Color photo of Engineering School, p389.
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani. Architecture of the 20th Century in Drawings: Utopia and Reality. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1982. ISBN 0-8478-0464-X. LC82-42534. NA2700.M3513. axonometric drawing, f87, p104.
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