Alison And Peter Smithson

Author : Mark Crinson
Publisher : Historic England Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architects
ISBN : 1848023529

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Alison and Peter Smithson by Mark Crinson Pdf

This is the first overview of the career of Alison and Peter Smithson, the most controversial yet most widely-influential of post-war architectural practices. From their first youthful project, the school at Hunstanton, to their final works, they epitomised the idea of the avant-garde architect, and were strongly engaged with artists and critics and with groups and tendencies in Britain and beyond. 0Structured thematically and chronologically, the book gives a coherent and compact narrative of the Smithsons' work and ideas. As well as all of the major buildings - including the Economist complex, the Garden building at St Hilda's College, and the Robin Hood Gardens estate - the book also discusses unbuilt projects, including substantial work for the British embassy at Brasilia and the Kuwait mat-building. It culminates with the less well-known factory additions, museum and house for Axel Bruchhauser, a furniture manufacturer in Germany. Central to their work, Mark Crinson argues, was a concern with belonging, with how we identify ourselves with places in a context of change.0Lavishly illustrated with new colour images as well as original drawings and historic photography, this book is an essential read for architects, students and enthusiasts for modernism wanting to learn more about the Smithsons.

Author : Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson,Beatriz Colomina,Design Museum (London, England)
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9789064505287

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Alison and Peter Smithson by Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson,Beatriz Colomina,Design Museum (London, England) Pdf

Striving to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of post-war reconstruction, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the twentieth 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. Their polemics and designs - addressing issues such as the rising consumer society and the orientation of urban planning - laid the foundations for New Brutalism and the Pop Art Movement of the 1960s. An important adaptation made by the Smithsons and their generation was the rejection of modernism's machine aesthetics. The new notions of place and territory were juxtaposed to Le Corbusier's machine à habiter. To the Smithsons a house was a particular place, which should be suited to its location and able to meet the ordinary requirements of everyday life and to accommodate its inhabitants' individual patterns of use. This exhibition examines the evolution of the Smithsons' approach to this everyday "art of inhabitation." It does this by extensively documenting most of their designs for individual dwellings, especially their optimistic House of the Future of 1956 and the series of renovations of and additions to the fairy-tale-like Hexenhaus in Germany from the late 1980s onward

Author : Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson
Publisher : London : Studio Vista ; New York : Reinhold
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0289277647

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Urban Structuring: Studies of Alison & Peter Smithson by Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson Pdf

Author : Max Risselada
Publisher : Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8434312549

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Alison & Peter Smithson by Max Risselada Pdf

Alison (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003), two of the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the twentieth century, strove to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of the period of post-war reconstruction.As younger members of CIAM (Congrés 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. The uncompromising modernity of their Hunstanton Secondary Modern School (1949-1954) heralded the Smithsons' role as the leading exponents of the New Brutalism and the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. In this book Risselada has collected together the most important published essays about the career of this partnership of British architects, from early contributions by Rayner Banham, Philip Johnson, Kenneth Frampton, and Peter Cook, to more recent texts by Peter Eisenmann, Christine Boyer, Beatriz Colomina, and Luisa Hutton.

Author : Alison Smithson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : 390707842X

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As in Ds by Alison Smithson Pdf

Architects Alison and Peter Smithson kept a visual diary of a drive from their London office to their Wiltshire cottage. The contrast of their sleek Citroen DS 19 with the verdant landscape links the urban and the rural in a sensible continuum. It was originally published as A Sensibility Primer in 1983.

Author : Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1580930506

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The Charged Void--architecture by Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson Pdf

The Smithsons have also added contemporary commentary to provide a context for the work."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Marco Vidotto
Publisher : Editorial Gustavo Gili
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040562731

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Alison + Peter Smithson by Marco Vidotto Pdf

From the start of the 1950s onwards the then young architects Alison (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003) played a crucial avantgarde role in British architecture due to the high experimental and ethical content of their designs and to their relation-ship with Team 10. With the building of Hunstanton Secondary Modern School (1950-1954) and their competition projects for Coventry Cathedral (1950-1951), the Golden Lane housing estate (1952) and the University of Sheffield (1953) they laid the foundations for a reflection on the more important issues in modern architectural culture. Their search for a language appropriate to the contemporary situation, their proposals for a new urban morphology, their ideas about the development of lifestyle in relation to interior space, and the connections architecture establishes with the environmental context are some of the themes explored during the course of their work.

Author : Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262190826

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Ordinariness and Light by Alison Margaret Smithson,Peter Smithson Pdf

An extended exploration of the authors' theories and work over the past seventeen years, in which not only their aesthetic but also their political and emotional concerns are made plain.

Author : Alison Smithson,Dirk van den Heuvel
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architects
ISBN : 1902902432

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Architecture is Not Made with the Brain by Alison Smithson,Dirk van den Heuvel Pdf

This book is a unique record of a symposium celebrating the essential work of Alison and Peter Smithson. It includes readings of individual works and lively discussions that provide historical context as well as specially commissioned essays, personal accounts from clients and colleagues, and original notes reproduced from the Smithson archives. 'A Silent Showing', a series of slides of the architecture of the Smithsons, has been reproduced exclusively for this book

Author : Alison Smithson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040563432

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Delete Modernism Without Rhetoric The Work of Alison and Peter Smithson by Alison Smithson Pdf

Ed: University of Sheffield, 300 illustrations in color & b/w, New essays.

Author : Alison Margaret Smithson,Alison Smithson,Peter Smithson
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006356573

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Without Rhetoric by Alison Margaret Smithson,Alison Smithson,Peter Smithson Pdf

"When le Corbusier assembled "Vers Une Architecture,"" write the Smithsons, "he gave to young architects everywhere a way of looking at the emergent machine-served society, and from that, a way of looking at antiquity and a rationale to support his personal aesthetic. Viollet-le-Duc had performed the same service to architects before le Corbusier: the role they played is traditional to the development of architecture. In this essay, based on material written between 1955 and 1972, we try to do the same as these architects before us."We write to make ourselves see what we have got in the inescapable present...to give another interpretation of the same ruins...to show a glimpse of another aesthetic."The Smithsons gained an international reputation in the early 1950s, both for their buildings and for being instrumental in the development of the "thoughtful" approach to modern architecture. Their theoretical accommodation of the economic and social context in which the architect/urbanist works was set out as succinctly as possible in "Urban Structuring, " published in 1967. "Team 10 Primer, " first published in a special issue of "Architectural Design" in 1962, and subsequently brought up to date and published by The MIT Press in book form in 1968, documented the Smithsons' search with other leading architect/urbanist/teachers for a technique of working together, a skill or way of thinking that past cultures obviously had but that seemed to be lost to the builders in our present cities."Without Rhetoric"--concerned with architectural form and its material embodiment--is a parallel volume to "Ordinariness and Light" (The MIT Press, 1970), which contained those essays concerning urban form written over the years 1952-1960. Architecture tends to be long-lasting, which makes thoughtful architects cautious, anxious to try to understand, to respond intelligently. They tend to dig into things, so that their intuition has as sound a base as possible to work on. "Without Rhetoric" is a refinement of the results of twenty years of such digging, intended to give the reader a real feeling for these particular architects' interests and obsessions. Among the many subjects discussed in word and image are The New Brutalism...the role of advertising in shaping what we think we need...The Rocket, a statement on the present state of architecture...Mies van der Rohe, a homage...some meditations on Braun...The use of repetition....

Author : Claude Lichtenstein,Thomas Schregenberger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3907078438

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As Found by Claude Lichtenstein,Thomas Schregenberger Pdf

British art and architecture of the 1950s are little known but extraordinarily topical today. Of particular relevance are the activities of the Independent Group, a loosely structured organization whose members included artists Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Magda Cordell, More...photographer Nigel Henderson, critics Reyner Banham and Lawrence Alloway, and architects Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling, and Colin St. John Wilson, who sought the essence of the everyday through a sensitivity to the hardships and charm of life in the raw. As Found encounters the transdisciplinary relationship between the constructed environment as it is visually perceived and verbally expressed. Edited by Claude Lichtenstein & Thomas Schregenberger. Artists include: Magda Cordell, Richard Hamilton, Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi. Architects include: Alison & Peter Smithson, James Stirling and Colin St. John Wilson.

Author : Alison Smithson,Peter Smithson
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UCSD:31822026099671

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Changing the Art of Inhabitation by Alison Smithson,Peter Smithson Pdf

Author : Peter Smithson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0951475797

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Bath by Peter Smithson Pdf

Author : Peter Smithson,Catherine Spellman,Karl Unglaub
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568984618

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Peter Smithson by Peter Smithson,Catherine Spellman,Karl Unglaub Pdf

The famous British Brutalist architect discusses his work and the process of thinking about architecture with students in a question-and-answer format.