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	Alison and Peter Smithson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		English architects Alison Smithson (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (18 September 1923-3 March 2003) together formed an architectural partnership, and are often associated with the Brutalist style.
		Peter was born in Stockton-on-Tees in north-east England, and Alison was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
		With the exception of their work at Bath, they designed no further public buildings in Britain, relying instead mainly on private overseas commissions, Peter Smithson’s writing and teaching, (he was a visiting professor at Bath from 1978 to 1990, and also a unit master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Smithson (261 words)

	Alison + Peter Smithson / Design Museum Exhibition: The Smithsons - The House of the Future to a House for Today - ...
		Alison and Peter Smithson with Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi in London, 1956
		Those ideals were articulated at a CIAM conference in 1953 when Alison and Peter attacked the decades-old dogma propounded by Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius that cities should be zoned into specific areas for living, working, leisure and transport and that urban housing should consist of tall, widely spaced towers.
		Peter, in particular, was praised as a devoted and inspiring teacher.
	www.designmuseum.org /designerex/alison-peter-smithson.htm (1759 words)

	Alison and Peter Smithson - from the House of the Future to a house of today - Archiseek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Striving to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of post-war reconstruction, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the 20th century.
		Alison and Peter Smithsons' reputation for controversy rather overshadowed the work at the heart of their architectural philosophy and practice: their designs for houses and preoccupation with the 'dwelling'.
		To the Smithsons a house was a particular place, which should be suited to its location, able to meet the ordinary requirements of life and to accommodate its inhabitants' individual patterns of use.
	www.archiseek.com /content/showthread.php?p=24122#post24122 (356 words)

	From Here To Modernity Architects - Peter & Alison Smithson
		Alison and Peter Smithson formed the most formidable British architectural partnership of the mid-twentieth century.
		But even before it was completed, the Smithsons were already expressing serious doubts at the Modernist orthodoxy, particularly in the crucial field of urban planning where CIAM's 1933 Athen's Charter (written by Le Corbusier) remained dominant.
		The Smithsons themselves built Robin Hood Gardens in 1972, but by then the wider deficiencies of Modernism, first noted by the couple twenty years previously, were becoming apparent to the general public as well.
	www.open2.net /modernity/4_7.htm (633 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| A career built on dreams
		Alison and Peter Smithson, husband and wife, architectural partners, then aged 21 and 26, burst on to the architectural scene with Hunstanton School in 1950.
		In fact, the Smithsons were even less successful when it came to building houses than public buildings, and so the exhibition is mainly a tale of unfulfilled ambitions.
		Here the Smithsons had the confidence to design a pitched roof at a time when a flat roof was de rigueur for anyone with modernist credentials and to cite the popularity of the Tudor cottage as a precedent when history was anathema to so many of their peers.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/12/17/basmi17.xml (898 words)

	Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		March 3, 2003, London, Eng.), with his wife, Alison, was among the foremost proponents of the New Brutalism style of architecture, which stressed a new respect for the functionality of materials.
		Smithson met fellow architecture student Alison Gill at the University of Durham; they were married in...
		Although British actor Peter O'Toole began his career in theater, it was his portrayal of T.E. Lawrence in the motion picture Lawrence of Arabia, released in 1962, that brought him international acclaim.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068313 (698 words)

	Gabion: Meet the Smithsons: separating the hype from reality. Should Alison and Peter Smithson have stuck to talking? ...
		From the 1940s to the 1970s, the Smithsons were one of the trendiest design couples in Britain.
		Oh yes, the Smithsons were manifesto architects, signature designers, colourful characters in an age of drab uniformity.
		Alison was always the mouthy one, inclined to wear bizarre self-designed clothes.
	www.hughpearman.com /articles5/smithsons.html (562 words)

	Peter and Alison Smithson - Great Buildings Online
		Peter Smithson was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England in 1923.
		Allison Smithson was born in Sheffield, England in 1928.
		In 1956, as members of the Independent Group, the Smithsons contributed to the This is Tomorrow exhibition which was revised in 1990 for an ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) travelling exhibition on their work.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Peter_and_Alison_Smithson.html (259 words)

	Observer \| Down to earth
		But as the obituaries revealed when Peter Smithson (born 1923) died this year - Alison (born 1928) died in 1993 - their work is still controversial, depending where you stand on brutalism.
		It is a wonderful illustration of the Smithsons' 'as found' theory, where instead of the earlier modernist pursuit of gleaming newness, the architects reuse and reinvent the existing.
		The pavilion was a focus of the Smithsons' family life for 20 years, extensively documented in their photographs and publications, including a cultish book, AS in DS, describing journeys in their Citroen DS.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4806879-110648,00.html (1293 words)

	The Twentieth Century Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Smithsons’ weekend home in Wiltshire belongs to that species in more than one sense, because not only did they build their ideas as concretely as possible, they also built themselves a private place for retreat and reflection.
		Alison Smithson, together with Enric Miralles, published these reflections in the poetic compilation Upper Lawn: Solar Pavilion Folly, during the time she was teaching in Barcelona (1985-86).
		Peter’s extensive photographic record of the construction and occupation of Upper Lawn is an important constituent of the publication.
	www.c20society.org.uk /docs/building/solar_pavilion.html (695 words)

	parole: cluster
		Peter SmithsonFebruary 24, 1999A Selected Bibliography BOOKSA + P Smithson: pensieri, progetti e frammenti fino al 1990 / a cura di Marco Vidotto.Genova: Sagep, c1991.Loeb Design: NA997.S54 A4x 1990Alison + Peter Smithson.
		Includes the Festival of Britain in 1951 on architecture, influence of Alison and Peter Smithson, and the This is Tomorrow exhibition of 1956.Dal Team X al Team x = From Team X to Team x / Mirko Zardini.IN: Lotus international 1997, n.95, p.[76]-97.Notes: In Italian and English.
		Urban form studies for the old city of Kuwait (1968-1975), by Alison and Peter Smithson.Millbank competition: Reflections on the state of British architecture.IN: Architectural design 1977, v.47, no.7-8, p.497-544.
	parole.aporee.org /work/print.php?words_id=200 (461 words)

	European Design Forum
		When asked to design a visionary ‘model home’, Alison and Peter Smithson, leading British architects in the mid-20th century, proposed a structure of organic units with futuristic features.
		Four types of chairs were typical mobile equipment: the pogo, the egg, the tulip, and the saddle chair.
		This and other projects designed by the Smithsons can be discovered in Witte de With, center for contemporary art, Rotterdam.
	www.eu-design.net /edf/news_page.php?news=23 (126 words)

	Alison and Peter Smithson : Design Igloo : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the 20th century.
		They strove to adapt the ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the needs of post-war reconstruction.
		The modernity of their Hunstanton Secondary Modern School (1949-1954) heralded the Smithsons’ role as the leading exponents of the New Brutalism.
	www.designigloo.com /books/205.html (224 words)

	cityofsound: The Smithsons and adaptive architecture
		I've been reading a bit about The Smithsons and Cedric Price, forerunners both of Archigram and much innovative thinking in post-war British architecture.
		Hugh Pearman provides a typically acerbic summing up of the Smithsons work, and many of his criticisms cannot be ignored (despite a strong whiff of typically Anglo-Saxon anti-intellectualism).
		As a student of architecture at sheffield given the task of a research project and presentation on the Smithsons in first year the article makes intreasting reading, espicially given a stunning lack of information in Sheffield.
	www.cityofsound.com /blog/2004/06/the_smithsons_a.html (2252 words)

	Artforum International: Alison and Peter Smithson.(Design Museum's exhi... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Alison and Peter Smithson.(Design Museum's exhibition of British architects' work)(Brief Article)
		The mighty Brutalist shadow cast by Alison and Peter Smithson's best-known public works (the Economist Building, the Robin Hood Gardens) has obscured the complexity of their four-decade practice.
		That's the contention of this exhibition, which bookends the British architects' career by focusing on two domestic projects--the House of the Future, a model produced for the "Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition" in 1956, and the lesser-known Hexenhaus, an idiosyncratic piece by-piece redesign of a Hessian cottage begun in 1986.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:108691772&... (200 words)

	RIBA Bookshops - Architectural Theory: Architecture is not made with the Brain: The Labour of the Smithsons . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		RIBA Bookshops - Architectural Theory: Architecture is not made with the Brain: The Labour of the Smithsons.
		Contributors, including Mohsen Mostafavi, Louisa Hutton, Irénée Scalbert, Peter St John, Bruno Krucker, Thomas Schregenberger, Niall Hobhouse and Jonathan Sergison, offer close readings of projects such as the Economist building as well as personal accounts as clients and colleagues and contextual pieces on the historical and European settings.
		Also reproduced here is A Silent Showing, a series of slides selected by Soraya, Simon and Samantha Smithson from the family collection, which features some of the buildings designed by their parents.
	www.ribabookshops.com /site/viewtitle.asp?pid=4928 (216 words)

	Architecture Is Not Made With the Brain: The Lbour of Alison And Peter Smithson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This included the Smithsons themselves, whose primary concern was always the search for and development of ideas.
		A Silent Showing, a series of slides of the architecture of Alison and Peter Smithson, has been reproduced exclusively for this book.
		It was selected by Soraya, Simon, and Samantha Smithson from the family collection and features some of the finest buildings designed by their parents, and reminds us why the Smithsons are among the most important, if overlooked, British architects of the last 30 years.
	isbn.nu /1902902432 (476 words)

	Find in a Library: Alison and Peter Smithson : from the house of the future to a house of today
		Find in a Library: Alison and Peter Smithson : from the house of the future to a house of today
		Alison and Peter Smithson : from the house of the future to a house of today
		by Alison Margaret Smithson; Peter Smithson; Dirk van den Heuvel; Max Risselada; Beatriz Colomina
	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/6ca45ad7a5f7f66da19afeb4da09e526.html (85 words)

	Peter Smithson - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word Peter Smithson:
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Peter Smithson" is defined.
		Phrases that include Peter Smithson: alison and peter smithson
	www.onelook.com /?w=Peter+Smithson&ls=a (80 words)

	James Jarvis / Illustrator (1970-) - Design/Designer Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The members of the Forever Sensible Motorcycle Club, like the musicians in Ages of Metal, his next In-Crowd characters, stem from the drawings that Jarvis has created since childhood.
		He was inspired to start drawing by his love of illustrated books such as Tintin, Rupert the Bear and The Tale of Peter the Rabbit.
		Born in London in 1970, Jarvis went on to study illustration at the University of Brighton and then at the Royal College of Art in London.
	www.designmuseum.org /designinbritain/index.php?id=71&PHPSESSID=984b2b... (1079 words)

	absolutearts.com Arts News: April 05.html: 2004
		Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art, Rotterdam, NL Striving to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of post-war reconstruction, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the twentieth century.
		Alison (1928-1993) and Peter (1923-2003) Smithson were at the heart of the debate about the future course of modern architecture.
		They were among the younger members of CIAM and were founding members of Team 10.
	wwar.com /newsletter/news-2004-04-05.html.html (627 words)

	HAL FOSTER - ON THE FIRST POP AGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is done partly in delight, the Smithsons suggest, and partly in desperation: ‘Today we are being edged out of our traditional role by the new phenomenon of the popular arts—advertising.
		We must somehow get the measure of this intervention if we are to match its powerful and exciting impulses with our own.’ [1] Others in the IG, Reyner Banham and Richard Hamilton above all, share this urgency.
		In different ways the Smithsons and Price and Archigram take ‘the measure of this intervention’ in architecture; Hamilton does the same in painting.
	www.newleftreview.net /NLR25306.shtml (5228 words)

	Meam Net : : : Alison Smithson - Peter Smithson
		Peter and Alison met at the University of Durham.
		Peter moved to London to study at the Royal Academy.
		their book Team 10 Primer, edited by Alison Gill, is published.
	www.meamnet.polimi.it /archive/090/090m.html (118 words)

	Amazon.com: The Charged Void: Urbanism: Books: ALISON SMITHSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Represents a record of a focused thought process concerned with the qualities of urban life.
		Alison and Peter Smithson produced one of the most significant and influential bodies of work of the twentieth century.
		Alison Smithson died in 1993, and Peter Smithson in 2003, two years after the publication of The Charged Void: Architecture.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1580931308?v=glance (522 words)

	BOOKFORUM \| summer 2002 \| contents
		on Alison and Peter Smithson's The Charged Void: Architecture
		Peter Trachtenberg on Jim Lewis's The King Is Dead
		Peter Bush on Rosmarie Waldrop's Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading
	www.bookforum.com /archive/tocs/sum03.html (237 words)

	Peter Denham Smithson (1923-2003), Architect
		The Smithsons met whilst studying Architecture at Durham University (1939-42) and married in 1949.
		They established their own partnership in 1950 and are best known for their involvement with the Team X group which attempted to break down barriers between the arts and sciences.
		The online database contains information on 87,077 works, 48,964 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp66271 (129 words)

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		Alison and Peter Smithson: From the House of the Future to a House of Today
		Striving to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of post-war reconstruction, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the twentieth century.
	www.architectureweek.com /cgi-bin/calendar.cgi?id=9300 (131 words)

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