James stirling
1981 pritzker laureate
james stirling, 1926-1992, of great britain was one of that countrys best-known architects particularly since his 1963 project at leicester university, the engineering building. born in glasgow, scotland, he took his architecture degree at liverpool university, but set up his practice in london.
in addition to the leicester project already mentioned, his other major works at the time he was awarded the pritzker prize included a training center for olivetti in hasselemere a history building for cambridge university an expansion of rice university in texas, and numerous low cost housing projects, and residences. since 1981, he has completed a major social sciences center in berlin a performing arts center for cornell university and such major museum projects as the clore gallery expansion for the tate gallery in london the arthur m. sackler museum, an addition to harvards fogg museum and the staatsgalerie in stuttgart, germany.