Title & Author:

Alison & Peter Smithson : a critical anthology / edited by Max Risselada.

Publication:

Barcelona : Polígrafa, ©2011.

Description:

463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 448-462).
Why do architects write?: the case of team 10 and Alison & Peter Smithson / M. Christine Boyer -- Seven small thoughts on the architects' writings / Richard Padovan -- School at Hunstanton / Philip Johnson -- Finite orders and the art of everyday inhabitation / Christoph Grafe -- The new brutalism / Reyner Banham -- Rough poetry: patio and pavilion revisited / Ben Highmore -- Picking up, turning over and putting with... / Dirk van den Heuvel -- The economist and the hauptstadt / Kenneth Frampton -- Architecture is not made with the brain / Irenee Scalbert -- From golden lane to Robin Hood Gardens. Or if you follow the yellow brick road, it may not lead to golders green / Peter Eisenman -- Robin Hood Gardens: a critical narrative / Alan Powers -- The pursuit of ordinariness: garden building Oxford / Robin Middleton -- Drawing the Smithsons: an artisanal memoir / Christopher Woodward -- The way back / Cees Boekraad -- Regarding the Smithsons / Peter Cook -- Foreword: the shift / David Dunster -- Scholars of architecture / David Turnbull -- Strategy and detail / Peter Salter -- Introduction to the Smithson exhibition catalogue / Marco Vidotto -- On the trundling turk / Enric Miralles -- The Space between / Max Risselada -- Couplings / Beatriz Colomina -- An open work by the Smithsons at Bad Karlshafen / Maddalena Scimemi -- Marterial reconstructed / Karl Unglaub -- The ten chairs of lauenforde / Louisa Hutton -- Lessons learnt from Alison and Peter Smithson -- Alison and Peter Smithson -- the architects of the void / Mark Wigley.

Summary:

Striving to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of post-war reconstruction, Alison (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923- 2003) were among the most influential and controversial architects of the 20th-century. As younger members of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne), and as founding members of Team 10, they were at the heart of the debate on the future course of Modern Architecture.

ISBN:

9788434312548 (hbk.)
8434312549 (hbk.)

Subject:

Smithson, Alison, 1928-1993 Criticism and interpretation.
Smithson, Peter, 1923-2003 Criticism and interpretation.
Smithson, Alison, 1928-1993
Smithson, Peter, 1923-2003.
Smithson, Alison Margaret Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture Great Britain History 20th century.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Risselada, Max.
Smithson, Alison, 1928-1993.
Smithson, Peter, 1923-2003.

Alison and Peter Smithson

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276257
Call No.: BIB 210811
Status: Available