The British architect James Frazer Stirling stimulated impassioned responses from both supporters and detractors. Fully illustrated with previously unpublished documents and new photography from the Archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, this book allows for a close examination of design drawings, photographs, and models spanning Stirling's entire career. These materials deepen our understanding of the influences, early formation, approach, and process of an architect whose work resists labeling. Filled with in-depth analytical and critical presentations of exemplary projects and their reception, the volume reveals Stirling to be a remarkably informed and consistent thinker and writer on architecture

• Entering the archive
• 1. Stirling at school
• Contextualizing the archive
• II. Modernism redux, 1950-1954
• III. The crisis of rationalism
• IV. Typology redivivus
• V. New Town revisionism
• VI. Context and association
• Analizying the archive
• VII. Content into form