Vidler has selected about 400 items for display after reviewing 5, 000 of the more than 40, 000 documents that span Stirling's career from 1949 to 1992, from his student days through his early work with James Gowan, and final partnership with Michael Wilford, to the year of his death.

WSJ: Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher, at the Yale Center for British Art | Postmodernism's Pivotal Figure | By Ada Louise Huxtable

The show has been organized in collaboration with the Canadian Center for Architecture, under the curatorship of Anthony Vidler, dean and professor of architecture of the School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York, who has written a scholarly and insightful book on Stirling based on his study of the archives that also serves as the exhibition catalog.

WSJ: Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher, at the Yale Center for British Art | Postmodernism's Pivotal Figure | By Ada Louise Huxtable