Word: architecturale
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Once a loud, murky place of grime and steam, like Monet's Gare SaintLazare, the cleaned-up St. Louis train shed has had a shopping mall and a new six- story hotel tucked inside. It is the architectural equivalent of the boat in the bottle, but the trick satisfies. The...
Harvard University buildings are designed by some of the most renowned and idiosyncratic individuals of our time. That is their trouble. An assembly of soloists has produced what British Architect James Stirling calls "an architectural zoo." Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts bullies its neighbors with masses...
These surrealist collages have become Stirling's signature, and the Sackler, which will house part of the collection of Harvard's venerable Fogg Art Museum, is the first American showcase for his impudent style. Critics generally praised the architect's drawings when they were first shown four years ago. Ada...
But Stirling's modernism was muted in the 1970s, when British avant-garde architects adopted the American and Italian nostalgia for architectural "references" and ornamentation. In a few buildings designed with Partner Michael Wilford, Stirling made halfhearted concessions to historicism. His first completed U.S. commission, Rice University's 1981 School...
With Holyoke and Carpenter Centers already under its belt the architectural firm of Sert Jackson. A Goutler drew up plans for Harvard's Science Center in 1972. Nearby, a man made overpass stretches over Kirkland St., connecting the Yard with the northern campus via a glass plaza and new rock...