Vidler, Anthony — James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2010. First. Hardbound. Dark red cloth boards with color pictorial DJ, 303pp, 358 color and BW illustrations. From the jacket--Fully illustrated with previously unpublished documents and new photography from the James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, this book allows for a close examination of design drawings, photographs, and models spanningStirling's entire career. These materials deepen our understanding of the influences, early formation, approach, and process of an architect whose work resists labelling. Filled with in-depth analytical and critical presentations of exemplary projects and their reception, the volume reveals Stirling to be a remarkably informed and consistent thinker and writer on architecture. VG .