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Lecture 7: <strong>James</strong> <strong>Stirling</strong>, <strong>Leicester</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>Building</strong>, 1959-63<strong>James</strong> <strong>Stirling</strong>, This is Tomorrow, 1956“The 1950’s signaled a change in the climate for modernity in England as architects, artists,and sculptors focused on alternatives to modernist abstraction. Collaborative efforts such asthat of the Independent Group proclaimed an interest in everyday materials an an ‘as found’aesthetic...”S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

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