Alison & Peter Smithson: From a House of the Future to a House of Today
by Dirk van den Heuvel, Alison Margaret Smithson, Peter Smithson
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Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the twentieth century. Although great admirers of Le Corbusier, the Smithsons rejected his famous conception of the dwelling as a "machine for living" for the Smithsons, a house should be suited to its location, and to the ordinary requirements of life; it should accommodate individual patterns of use. This book examines the evolution of their approach to the everyday "art of show more inhabitation," extensively documenting housing designs such as the House of the Future and the renovations of/additions to the Hexenhaus. show lessTags
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The British architect Peter Simpson has produced one of the most significant and influential bodies of work of the second half of the 20th century. His books include Urban Structuring, Ordinariness and Light, Without Rhetoric, The Shift, and the influential Team X Primer. (Bowker Author Biography)
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