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Thinking, Seeing, Practicing Architecture: From The Smithsons To Scott Brown And Venturi
This dissertation situates the thought, vision, and design approach of Alison and Peter Smithson in relation to that of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi to reveal a shared attitude toward “the real.” I argue that each couple utilized a mode of visual research that was inspired by the social …
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Postwar British Fictions of Inhabitation
The New Brutalist architect Alison Smithson is often quoted as saying that ‘a book is like a small building to us’. Indeed, her 1966 novel A Portrait of the Female Mind as a Young Girl, published by Chatto and Windus, underscores the fact that the putting-together of both books and buildings was an …