Part of a series of technically informative monographs embracing a broadpectrum of internationally renowned buildings, this work deals with thengineering department building of Leicester University, and includes aomprehensive set of technical drawings and working details.;While still inartnership with James Gowan, the late James Stirling's strong personal styles first seen to emerge in the extraordinary Leicester Engineering Departmentuilding. Its slender, almost transparent, tower rises above the projectingorms of its wedge-shaped auditoria. This constructivist inspired ensemble ishen juxtaposed with the industrial toughness of the engineering workshopshose saw-tooth factory glazing cuts across its roof at an acute angle,etting up a powerful and contradictory geometry. An in-depth analysis isrovided by Malcolm Higgs who worked in Stirling's office during the designnd construction of the building in the early 1960s, and watched its progresst first hand.