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James Frazer Stirling (1926 - 1992) was one of Britain's most important architects starting from a 1960s. Stirling was innate inside Glasgow and obtained his architecture degree at Liverpool University, but install professional around London. He was awarded a Pritzker Prize in 1981.

A Stirling Prize, a British annual prize for architecture since 1996, was named fallowing him. A few of Stirlings virtually all easily-known realizations include: Engineering building, Leicester University (1959) How to training center for Olivetti in Haslemere History Faculty, Cambridge University (1968) Expansion of Rice University in Texas Many moo numbers public housing & residences Performing Arts Center for Cornell University Clore Gallery expansion, Tate Gallery, London Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Addition to Harvard's Fogg Art Museum Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (1977-83) No 1 Poultry, City of London (1998)

James Stirling
Brief biography of this Scottish-born experimentalist in Great Buildings Online, with details of some of his buildings.

James Stirling
Brief biography, photographs and citation by the Pritzker jury 1981, from the Pritzker Architecture Prize site.

BBC Audio Interviews: James Stirling
Listen to extracts from a BBC interview with the British architect of the History Library at Cambridge University.






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