Stirling’s Red Buildings:

A Twentieth Century Society day conference on three major early works for academic institutions by James Stirling and James Gowan, with the Department of History of Art & Film, University of Leicester. 

 

The Engineering Building, Leicester (Stirling and Gowan, 1959-64), the Seeley Library and History Faculty, Cambridge (James Stirling, 1964-68, Grade II listed), and the Florey Building, Queen’s College, Oxford (James Stirling 1966-72).

 

Opening by Professor Robert Burgess (Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester)
Professor John McKean (University of Brighton) on the Leicester Engeering Building, 1959-64
Mark Cannata (HOK Architects) on the History Faculty and Library, Cambridge, 1964-67
Alan Berman (Berman Guedes Stretton Architects) on the Florey Building, Oxford, 1966-71
Professor Robert Maxwell (author of James Stirling Michael Willford)
Ellis Woodman (author of Modernity and Reinvention, The Architecture of James Gowan)
Edward Jones (Dixon Jones Architects) 
John Tuomey (O’Donnell & Tuomey Archiitects)