Exterior: History Faculty Building by James Stirling · Roark

cambridge university history faculty building, 1964-1967. architect: james stirling, 1926-1992. our first stop was cambridge. we came for the monuments but fell for the town. for sheer compositional exuberance, the history faculty building was a great sight. it is surprisingly small - all those clever moves in so little space - but that only adds to the intensity and charm of it. I have seen this sold as new brutalism as well as early high tech but the fact is that stirling's three red masterpieces don't fit categories comfortably. a sense that the history faculty is composed mainly from the o — History Faculty Building
James Stirling
Exterior · Cambridge, United Kingdom
Photo: seier+seier · 2010-07-20 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 7500×4431
cambridge university history faculty building, 1964-1967. architect: james stirling, 1926-1992. our first stop was cambridge. we came for the monuments but fell for the town. for sheer compositional exuberance, the history faculty building was a great sight. it is surprisingly small - all those clever moves in so little space - but that only adds to the intensity and charm of it. I have seen this sold as new brutalism as well as early high tech but the fact is that stirling's three red masterpieces don't fit categories comfortably. a sense that the history faculty is composed mainly from the o
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