Alison Smithson | Author

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The British architect Alison Smithson has produced one of the most significant and influential bodies of work of the second half of the 20th century. Her books include Urban Structuring, Ordinariness and Light, Without Rhetoric, The Shift, and the influential Team X Primer. Alison Smithson died in show more 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the name: Alison Margaret Smithson

Works by Alison Smithson

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Team 10 Primer (1968) 45 copies, 2 reviews

The Charged Void: Urbanism (2005) 38 copies, 2 reviews

The Charged Void: Architecture (2001) 33 copies

The heroic period of modern architecture (1981) 33 copies, 1 review

Alison & Peter Smithson: From a House of the Future to a House of Today (2004) 25 copies, 2 reviews

Urban structuring : studies of Alison & Peter Smithson (1967) 23 copies

Without Rhetoric: An Architectural Aesthetic 1955-1972 (1973) 20 copies

Ordinariness and Light: Urban Theories, 1952-1960 and Their Application in a Building Project, 1963-1970 (1970) 17 copies

Changing the Art of Inhabitation (1994) 14 copies

AS IN DS: An Eye on the Road: Alison Smithson (1982) 13 copies

The Euston Arch and the growth of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (1968) 7 copies

Italienische Gedanken : Beobachtungen und Reflexionen zur Architektur (1996) 5 copies

Cambiando El Arte de Habitar (Spanish Edition) (2001) 5 copies

Upper Lawn, Solar Pavilion (2023) 3 copies

Italienische gedanken, weitergedacht (2014) 2 copies

A. and P. Smithson: The Shift (1983) 1 copy

The emergence of Team 10 out of C.I.A.M. documents (1982) 1 copy

Team 10 Primmer 1 copy

Imprint of India (2004) 1 copy

[A bibliography of the work of Alison and Peter Smithson] 1 copy

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Other names: Smithson, Alison Margaret
Birthdate: 1928-06-22
Date of death: 1993-08-16
Gender: female
Occupations: architect
Relationships: Smithson, Peter (husband)
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Associated Place (for map): England, UK

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Die heroische Periode der modernen Architektur by Alison Margaret Smithson

The British architect Alison Smithson has produced one of the most significant and influential bodies of work of the second half of the 20th century. Her books include Urban Structuring, Ordinariness and Light, Without Rhetoric, The Shift, and the influential Team X Primer. Alison Smithson died in 1993.

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Alison & Peter Smithson - from the House of the Future to a house of today by Dirk van den Heuvel