Alison + Peter Smithson

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Architecture

ISBN: 9788425216848
English/Spanish edition
Editorial Gustavo Gili
Softcover, 232 pages
14 x 20 cm
March 2004
€17,31 (excl. VAT)

Alison + Peter Smithson

Marco Vidotto

Series: Works and Projects / Obras y projectos

From the start of the 1950s onwards, the then young architects Alison (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003) played a crucial, avant garde role in British architecture due to the highly experimental and ethical content of their designs and to their relationship 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.