Jim Stirling’s Architecture - ACE036.5

Andrew Melville Halls at the University of St Andrews (1967), where an artificial mound creates a barrier between the building and the "outside". A similar idea at Oxford. The canteen. Extractor pipes from the kitchen. Stirling’s VO talking about the conjunction of form and meaning. One of Stirling’s team describing Stirling’s success as resulting from taking "his basic idea right through to completion". Copy of The Architect with an article on "Cruel aesthetics". Stirling talking to undergraduates passing by in a punt. Still of Oxford street in 1940s, film of same street today. Commentary talking about post-war ideas of technology and planning which have not been progressed as hoped. London streets. Oxford river. Stirling and colleagues in their offices. Plans, models, etc. Stirling’s VO on work for international competition. Model for a steel and glass structure that was never built.