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(1926-1922)
A presentation by
Anupriya Saraswat (17)
Astha Singh (18)
Scotland
Went to school at Quarry Bank
High School,Liverpool, England
DuringWorld War II, he joined
theBlack Watchbefore
transferring to theParachute
Regiment.
Stirling studied architecture from
1945 until 1950 at theUniversity
of Liverpool.
Attended the School of Town
Worked initially at Lyons, Israel and Ellis, then
Planning
and
Regional Research,
entered
in a
partnership
with James Gowan, and later
London
from
1950 to 1952.
with
Michael
Wilford.
Influences
As a student, he was much
Career Timeline
Architecture (RIBA)
1981-Awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize
1984-Staatsgalerie (State Gallery and Chamber Theatre), Stuttgart, Germany
1985-Sackler Gallery, Harvard University
1986-Clore Gallery, Tate Gallery, London
1986-91-Braun Pharmaceutical equipment plant, Melsungen, Germany. Designed with
1990-Awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture, Japan Art Association, Tokyo
1991-Electa Bookshop realised for the 1991 Venice Biennale
are provided, to allow for different crosscampus circulation routes. Thus, four
The accommodation
Awards
Alvar Aalto Medal, 1977
RIBARoyal Gold Medal, 1980-for
Legacy
James Stirling was always hailed as a postmodernist,