Not Quite Architecture: Writing Around Alison and Peter Smithson
Not Quite Architecture: Writing Around Alison and Peter Smithson
$44.95
Smithson, Peter + Alison. Boyer, M. Christine
MIT 2017
SKU: S03033
An exploration of published and unpublished writings of Alison and Peter Smithson, considering them in the context of the debates and discourses of postwar architecture.
The English architects Alison Smithson (1928–1993) and Peter Smithson (1923–2003) were ringleaders of the New Brutalism, active in CIAM and Team 10, and influential in English Pop Art. The Smithsons, who met as architecture students, built only a few buildings but wrote prolifically throughout their career, leaving a body of writings that consider issues in architecture and urbanism and also take up subjects that are “not quite architecture” (the name of a series of articles written by Alison Smithson for the Architects' Journal)—including fashion design, graphic communication, and children's tales.
482 pp. Cl. Many B/W + color illus.
