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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Alison and Peter Smithson
  name:
    name part: Crinson, Mark
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 150 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This is the first overview of the career of Alison and Peter Smithson, the most controversial yet most widely-influential of postwar architectural practices. From their first youthful project, the school at Hunstanton, to their final works, they epitomized the idea of the avantgarde architect, and were strongly engaged with artists and critics and with groups and tendencies in Britain and beyond. Structured 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. Lavishly illustrated with new color 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.
  note: Mark Crinson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-143) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Smithson, Alison
      name part: 1928-1993
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Smithson, Peter
      name part: 1923-2003
  subject:
    topic: Architects
    geographic: England
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Brutalism (Architecture)
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, Modern
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: NA997.S57 C75 2018
  classification: 728.0942
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Twentieth century architects
  identifier: 9781848023529
  identifier: 1848023529
  identifier: 2018404412
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180601
    record change date: 20181018133424.0
    record identifier: in00004005257