• Alison Margaret Smithson (draughtsman)
• Alison Margaret Smithson (architect)
• Peter Smithson (architect)

Sketch plan for the Circular House

1956-1957

• design development drawing

Graphite

sheet: 14.9 x 17.5 cm

DR1995:0053

• line drawing
• freehand drawing

• sketch plan (drawing)

• plan view

Drawing is attached to the secondary support at u.l. and u.r. Text from an essay (?) is typed on the verso of the support with hand written corrections and is stained along the b. and r. edges. There is a piece of tracing vellum attached, with transparent tape, to the t. edge, verso of the secondary support and folded over the drawing. The secondary support has staple holes at c.l., l.l., c.r. and l.r. There is a graphite line from u.r. to l.r., verso of the secondary support.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, on the sheet, t.: "Plan" stamped - in red ink, on a paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support, r.: "ALISON AND PETER SMITHSON - ARCHITECTS -"; and "Cato Lodge, / 24 Gilston Road, / London, SW10 9SR / 01-373 7423/3838" [the stamp consists of two circles, the outer circle contains the architects' names and the inner circle contains the address] stamped - in red ink, on a paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support, l.c. to l.r.: "PLEASE RETURN" imprinted and dated - by an unknown hand, in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support, u.l. to l.l.: "CIRCULAR HOUSE, 1956-57. / PLAN / Idea for a standard house / with extra ground floor / room with spearate [sic] / entrance. / Pencil on scrap typescript:A.M.S." ["PLAN" by an unknown hand in graphite; "spearate" has hand written correction in pen and black ink] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on a paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support, c.l.: "CVA: 87" [between "sperate [sic] / entrance" and "Pencil on scrap"; written in bubble font] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the overleaf, b.: "CVA FOLIO 8" [upside down]

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

• house
• rooms