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6. Material Inversions James Stirling, Leicester Engineering Building ...

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Lecture 7: <strong>James</strong> <strong>Stirling</strong>, <strong>Leicester</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>Building</strong>, 1959-63Le Corbusier, Villa Stein“…confrontation between modernist abstraction and an incipient postmodern ‘reality’embodied in a material presence.“Philip Johnson, AT&T <strong>Building</strong>“…the English context immediately after World War II is significant in understanding thecritique of modernist abstraction embodied both materially and conceptually in the <strong>Leicester</strong><strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>Building</strong>.“S. Hambright Drawing Canonical Ideas in Architecture UofA

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