Main entry:

Smithson, Alison Margaret.

Title & Author:

The charged void : urbanism / Alison and Peter Smithson.

Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, c2005.

Description:

351 p. : ill. (some col.), plans, ports. ; 27 cm.

Notes:
"'The Charged Void: Urbanism' is the companion volume to 'The Charged Void: Architecture'; the two comprise the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson"--Dust jacket.
Includes indexes.
1. Cluster (1950-55) -- 2. Connection allows scatter (1957-62) -- 3. Pavilion and route (1958-64) -- 4. Again connection allows scatter (1961-62) -- 5. Cohesion (1959-67) -- 6. Neutrality (1968-72) -- 7. Holes in cities (1953-88) -- 8. Pavilion and route followed further (1973-83) -- 9. And again the sun (1976-92) -- 10. The grown and the built (1982-93) -- 11. Pavilion and route compounded (1962-92) -- 12. Signals (1977-93) -- 13. Minimal intervention (1977-92) -- 14. Yet again pavilion and route (1990-96).
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"British architects and urbanists Alison and Peter Smithson first rose to prominence in the 1950s. Many of their ideas, social, architectural, and urban, profoundly influenced generations of practitioners, students, and academics." "The Charged Void: Urbanism is the companion volume to The Charged Void: Architecture; the two comprise the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson. The Charged Void: Urbanism collects the urban form projects from the Smithsons' extensive and prolific collaboration, as well as building projects with specific implications for urban form. The work is ordered thematically in fourteen chapters: cluster, cohesion, pavilion and route."
"More than a collection of work, this book represents a record of a careful and highly focused thought process concerned with the qualities of urban life - a collection of observations, decipherings, commentaries, and recommendations for understanding and improving the complex nature of the city."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1580931308
9781580931304

Subject:

Smithson, Alison Margaret Themes, motives.
Smithson, Peter, 1923-2003 Themes, motives.
Smithson, Alison, 1928-1993.
Smithson, Peter, 1923-2003.
Alison and Peter Smithson (Firm)
City planning History 20th century Case studies.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Case studies.
Architecture 20e siècle Études de cas.
Architecture, Modern.
City planning.
Themes, motives.

Form/genre:

Catalogues raisonnés.
Case studies.
History.

Added entries:

Smithson, Peter, 1923-2003.
Chung, Chuihua Judy

Holdings:

Location: Library main 242731
Call No.: NA44.S6646.A35 2005
Status: Available