Review: <i>James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive</i>, by Anthony Vidler
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Abstract
Book Review| December 01 2011 Review: James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive, by Anthony Vidler Anthony Vidler. James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive. New Haven and London: Canadian Centre for Architecture and Yale Center for British Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2010, xix + 303 pp., 360 color illus. $70, (cloth) ISBN 9780300167238 John Meunier John Meunier Arizona State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2011) 70 (4): 546–547. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.4.546 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John Meunier; Review: James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive, by Anthony Vidler. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 December 2011; 70 (4): 546–547. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.4.546 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search First some disclosures: I attended the Liverpool University School of Architecture, starting in 1953, three years after James Stirling graduated from that same institution. When I began teaching at Cambridge in 1962 I inherited from Colin Rowe a tutorial supervisee named Anthony Vidler. On sabbatical leave to Harvard from Cambridge in 1968, I was called in to "pinch-hit" for Stirling at Yale for a semester, much, I'm sure, to the dismay of his students. These connections made reviewing this book a journey of reminiscence. There was the recognizable work of a postwar student of the Liverpool University School of Architecture—typically commonsensical and programmatically thorough, revealing influences from international figures such as Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer, and at the same time very aware of Liverpool's architectural, maritime, and industrial history, and its orientation westward towards the U.S.A. There was the influence of Colin Rowe, who refused to accept that architecture... You do not currently have access to this content.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.078 | 0.088 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".