Not quite architecture : writing around Alison and Peter Smithson

By:

Boyer, M. Christine

Publication details: London MIT Press 2017Description: xvi,483pISBN:

9780262035514

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.922 BOY

Contents:

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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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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

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