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From: Stirling's Inheritance To: Stirling's Legacy Re: Stirling's Muses

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"[T]he type of Schinkel's Altes Museum was not available for Stirling, for all the appropriateness of the model for his German audience, without having been submitted to considerable transformations during the modern period."

Anthony Vidler, "Losing Face" in The Architectural Uncanny - Essays in the Modern Unhomely (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992), p.93.

Altes Museum
Berlin, 1824-30
Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Musée Mondail
Mundaneum, 1829
Le Corbusier

Palace of the Assembly
Chandigarh, 1950-65
Le Corbusier

Neue Staatsgalerie
Stuttgart, 1977-83
James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates

Stirling's Muses Part I

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