James Stirling was a post-war British Architect who managed to constantly re-invigorate the language of architecture while those around him were either dissolving it in technological utopias or concealing it behind historical masks. His imagination was saturated by an eclectic array of historical pre
Sir John Vanbrugh approached everything he did with audacity. The fact that he shifted in midlife from literature to architecture is proof enough of this boldness. But the plays were in themselves daring and controversial, while the architecture challenged the norms of the day. Clearly, it was not
As architect for the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hadid was asked about the possibility of creating a neutral space to house art. She contended, "'Neutral space' is a wishful oxymoron. All space is colored by individual memory and experience." The experience and memory this world-fam