Material (Tectonics)

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The materiality and its aesthetic are thoroughly industrial: Steel pipe, engineering brick, glazed glass, red tile and reinforced concrete.Referring to the building James Stirling states, "the total building should read asa conjunction of fixed, specific activities and of a variable changing situation".
Therefore, functional considerations, beginning with the constricted site and following the programmatic demands began molding the form, while technical and economic factors and materials drove its construction and expression. There is function and then definite expression of it, "… for me, right from the beginning the 'art' of architecture has always been
the priority" he clarifies. James Gowan on the other hand seems to have a clearer sequential definition of architecture as a science to be understood in order to open the possibility to artistic expression at later stages.
 Leicester was significant in that it pointed to a new way of building: utilizing contemporary materials, responding to functionality in a technical and poetic way not subject to the rigidity of early Modernism.

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