Reassessment
Many architects and critics had disapproved of Stirling's shift away from the modernist assemblages of his early career, to explorations of design that engaged the urban context more directly and that appropriated elements from a broader range of historical precedents than the modern, engineering and vernacular sources that typified the first works. This seeming embrace of Post Modernism meant that, despite the office's international array of powerful urban assemblages that reconceptualized architectural forms and spaces, this work went rapidly out-of-fashion with the architectural world's revival of modernism. However, by 2010 a more thoughtful assessment of Stirling's overall career was underway, spearheaded by Anthony Vidler's major exhibition and catalogue, James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive.
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