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The most highly regarded of Stirling's West German works is the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. Avant-garde critics of architecture have lauded the new museum addition.
Stirling has had some exposure in the United States as well. Besides teaching architecture as a visiting critic at Yale, he designed M.D. Anderson Hall at Rice University, completed in 1981.
Stirling has won several distinguished architectural awards, including the British Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1980 and the $100,000 Pritzker award in 1981.
The 60,000 square foot building adds 11,000 square feet of new gallery space to Harvard's museum system in a way few people ever imagined a campus dominated by Georgian architecture would.
Aside from the fact that no two rooms have the same dimensions, the Sackler has a few other oddities. Some of its current novelties include the museum's innovative entrance. Breaking with traditional museum architecture, Stirling designed an entrance where visitors descend to glass doors rather than walk up a...