Urban Structuring: Studies of Alison & Peter Smithson (First Edition, 1967)
Alison Smithson; Peter Smithson
Language: English
Published by Studio Vista; Reinhold, 1967
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
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Good. Unmarked text. Marks to upper and lower margins of front flyleaf. First Edition. 1967, Studio Vista, London, and Reinhold, New York. Paperback; tanning and soiling to covers, moderate edge and corner wear; small dealer notations to rear cover upper corner. Spine square, black lettering still bright. Binding tight, solid & square. Red front flyleaf printed w/ publisher's description. Illustrated w/ b&w sketch drawings, plans, maps and photographs throughout. 96 pp. 6.5 x 7.75 inches. A Studio Vista/Reinhold Art Paperback, edited by John Lewis; issued simultaneously w/ the hardcover edition. Expanded from the Smithsons' Uppercase 3, a short book issued in a small run in 1960. Printed in the Netherlands by Koch & Knuttel, Gouda. Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Alison and Peter Smithson's Urban Structuring, published in 1967 by Studio Vista in London and Reinhold in New York as a Studio Vista/Reinhold Art Paperback edited by John Lewis, sets out the couple's thinking on the city in concise, chronological form. Sketch drawings, plans, maps and photographs follow their studies from the Golden Lane project of 1952 and its streets-in-the-air through patterns of association, identity, cluster and mobility to the London Roads Study, Hauptstadt Berlin and Citizens' Cambridge. The book grew out of Uppercase 3, a short 1960 book issued in a small run, in which the Smithsons first summarized their urban ideas; the 1967 volume expands it w/ the studies made since. The Golden Lane scheme was developed into a general theory and presented to CIAM 9 at Aix-en-Provence in 1953, where the words association and identity entered architectural thinking. Alison Smithson (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003) were British architects associated w/ New Brutalism and w/ Team X, whose 1953 revolt reshaped the CIAM congresses. Major built works by the pair include Hunstanton School in Norfolk, the Economist Building in St James's Street, London, and Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar.…
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- Title
- Urban Structuring: Studies of Alison & Peter Smithson (First Edition, 1967)
- Author
- Alison Smithson; Peter Smithson
- Publisher
- Studio Vista; Reinhold
- Publication year
- 1967
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0289278619
- ISBN 13
- 9780289278611
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 49 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 7.75 in
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture
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