Alison & Peter Smithson (Obras y Proyectos / Works and Projects) - Softcover

Vidotto, Marco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8425216842 ISBN 13: 9788425216848

Publisher: Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L., 1997

Synopsis

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 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L.
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 8425216842
• ISBN 13: 9788425216848
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232