An important exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven explores these issues through sketches, drawings, photographs and models selected from the Stirling archives owned by the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal.

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But then there are these very personal items - photographs of loved ones, handwritten notes from family members, kids' drawings.

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These drawings, so gently suggestive of the power of the buildings themselves, are far removed from today's robotic computer renderings.

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