James Stirling

Sir James Stirling (Glasgow, 22 April 1926 – London, 25 June 1992) was a British architect.

A member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, he was one of the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 1950th century. He is perhaps best known as one of those young architects from various countries who, from XNUMX onwards, questioned and subverted the compositional and theoretical precepts of the early modern movement. The sometimes agitated and modified reinterpretative development of those precepts was much influenced by his mentor, friend and teacher, the important architectural theorist and urban planner Colin Rowe – he introduced an eclectic spirit that allowed him to delve into the entire history of architecture for a source of compositional inspiration, …….Source Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stirling_(architetto)