The School of Architecture is holding an event to celebrate renowned architect Sir James Stirling, who graduated from the University in 1950.
At the time of his death in 1992, Stirling was widely regarded as the leading architect of his generation, not just in Britain but worldwide.
Born in Glasgow, he spent much of his childhood in Liverpool and trained at the Liverpool School of Architecture. The rich urban fabric of Liverpool and the North, combining industrial and vernacular buildings with some of Europe’s grandest neoclassical monuments, exerted a powerful fascination for him and had a profound influence on the rich architectural language that he was to develop.
Chaired by Professor Mark Swenarton, the James Stirling Professor at the School of Architecture, the event will include a panel discussion and debate and speakers will include Emeritus Professor Robert Maxell from Princeton University and Elain Harwood from English Heritage.
Stirling and the North is on Saturday 25 June at 2pm in the Tate Liverpool, Stirling’s only Liverpool building, at the Albert Dock. For further information visit: www.architecture.com/northwest tickets cost £5/£3 concessions.