Building Sights

The Katharine Stephen Room (2x9)

Air date: Nov 22, 1989

Internationally renowned architect James Stirling examines the Katharine Stephen Room - rare books library of Newnham College, Cambridge (1988 Birkin Haward/Joanna Van Heyningen). 'I like the building because it's small and monumental,' he says. 'It has achieved an incredible presence which to me is the definition of monumental.'