Not quite architecture : writing around Alison and Peter Smithson
Boyer, M. Christine
Not quite architecture : writing around Alison and Peter Smithson - London MIT Press 2017 - xvi,483p.
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xv
1.Compromising modernism: architectural polemics in postwar England 1
2. A history of beginnings: alternate routes for a younger generation of architects 37
3. Thoughts touching everything 75
4. Messages from America 113
5. Fashionable modernity 157
6. Vehicles of desire 195
7. Team 10: keeping the language of modern architecture alive 231
8. Retrospective ruminations 259
9. Landscapes of lyrical appropriateness 293
10. The sensibility primers: revenge of the picturesque 329
11. The fictional Smithsons: autobiographical accounts 359
Notes 397
Index 465
9780262035514
720.922 / BOY
Not quite architecture : writing around Alison and Peter Smithson - London MIT Press 2017 - xvi,483p.
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xv
1.Compromising modernism: architectural polemics in postwar England 1
2. A history of beginnings: alternate routes for a younger generation of architects 37
3. Thoughts touching everything 75
4. Messages from America 113
5. Fashionable modernity 157
6. Vehicles of desire 195
7. Team 10: keeping the language of modern architecture alive 231
8. Retrospective ruminations 259
9. Landscapes of lyrical appropriateness 293
10. The sensibility primers: revenge of the picturesque 329
11. The fictional Smithsons: autobiographical accounts 359
Notes 397
Index 465
9780262035514
720.922 / BOY