A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the world's first industrial city: Manchester. From the mid-eighteenth century to the nineteen-twenties, from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the height of Manches...

James Stirling (1924-1992) is acclaimed as the most influential and controversial modern British architect. His partnership with James Gowan (b. 1923) between 1956 and 1963 put postwar British architecture on the international map, and their Leiceste...