NOT QUITE ARCHITECTURE

The English architects Alison Smithson (1928--1993) and Peter Smithson (1923--2003) were ringleaders of the New Brutalism, active in CIAM and Team 10, and influential in English Pop Art. The Smithsons, who met as architecture students, built only a few buildings b ut wrote prolifically throughout their career, leaving a body of writings that consider issues in architecture and urbanism and also take up subjects that are not quite architecture (the name of a series of articles written by Alison Smithson for the Architects' J ournal) ...[Leer más]