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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...
Stirling's growing reputation belies the controversy surrounding his work. A 59-year-old Scotch architect of imposing girth but unpretentious manner, he was little known in the U.S. when Harvard selected him in 1979 from among some 70 competitors for the Sackler job. Since then, he has won the...
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...
Today, Harvard is planning to built 50 units of affiliate housing and ground level retail space at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Banks Streets. A noticable departure from Pusey-era architecture, tentative plans for the proposed structure at 8:10 Mt. Mt. Auburn St. call for a return to...
"The uniform architecture at most major universities is boring," said Samuel A. Halaby '60 of Rochester, N.Y. "Without getting philosophical, the diversity of this architecture reflects the diversity of [Harvard's] student body."