Articoli correlati a Not Quite Architecture: Writing around Alison and Peter...
Sinossi
An exploration of published and unpublished writings of Alison and Peter Smithson, considering them in the context of the debates and discourses of postwar architecture.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 but 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' Journal)—including fashion design, graphic communication, and children's tales. In this book, M. Christine Boyer explores the Smithsons' writings—books, articles, lectures, unpublished manuscripts, and private papers. She focuses on unpublished material, reading the letter, the scribbled note, the undelivered lecture, the scrapbook, the “magic box,” as words in the language of modern architectural history—especially that of postwar England, where the Smithsons and other architects were at the center of the richest possible range of cultural encounters. Boyer is “writing around” the Smithsons' work by considering the cultural contexts in which they formed and wrote about their ideas.
Boyer explains that the Smithsons were intensely concerned with the responsibility of the architect to ensure the quality of place, to build with lyrical appropriateness. They reached back to the country landscapes of their childhood and, Boyer argues, mixed their brand of New Brutalism with the English Picturesque. The Smithsons saw architects as both inheritors and passers-on. Their writings offer juxtapositions and connections, resembling an association of interactive loops, ideas waiting to be transmuted into built form.
Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.
Product Description
Not Quite Architecture-Writing Around Alison And Peter Smithson by M. Christine Boyer, 9780262035514, Mit Press
Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.
- EditoreThe MIT Press
- Data di pubblicazione2017
- ISBN 10 0262035510
- ISBN 13 9780262035514
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine504
Compra nuovo
Visualizza questo articolo
EUR 17,06
EUR 3,53 per la spedizione in U.S.A.
Destinazione, tempi e costiRisultati della ricerca per Not Quite Architecture: Writing around Alison and Peter...
Foto dell'editore
Not Quite Architecture: Writing around Alison and Peter Smithson (Mit Press)
Da: Bellwetherbooks, McKeesport, PA, U.S.A.
Valutazione del venditore 5 su 5 stelle
hardcover. Condizione: As New. LIKE NEW/UNREAD!!! Text is Clean and Unmarked! Has a small black line or red dot on the bottom/exterior edge of pages. Codice articolo MIT-HC-LN-0262035510
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Foto dell'editore
Not Quite Architecture: Writing around Alison and Peter Smithson (The MIT Press)
Da: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Valutazione del venditore 5 su 5 stelle
Condizione: Used - Very Good. 2017. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Tall octavo. xv & 483 pp. Illustrated. Very Good. Codice articolo C61155
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Foto dell'editore
Not Quite Architecture: Writing around Alison and Peter Smithson (The MIT Press)
Da: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Valutazione del venditore 5 su 5 stelle
Condizione: Used - Like New. Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2017. Originally published at $44.95. Codice articolo W125121
Quantità: 20 disponibili
Foto dell'editore
Not Quite Architecture: Writing Around Alison and Peter Smithson
Da: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Valutazione del venditore 5 su 5 stelle
hardcover. Condizione: New. Brand New. Codice articolo 1449512
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Foto dell'editore
Not Quite Architecture: Writing Around Alison and Peter Smithson
Da: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Valutazione del venditore 5 su 5 stelle
Hardcover. Condizione: New. 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 but 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' Journal) -- including fashion design, graphic communication, and children's tales. In this book, M. Christine Boyer explores the Smithsons' writings -- books, articles, lectures, unpublished manuscripts, and private papers. She focuses on unpublished material, reading the letter, the scribbled note, the undelivered lecture, the scrapbook, the 'magic box,' as words in the language of modern architectural history -- especially that of postwar England, where the Smithsons and other architects were at the center of the richest possible range of cultural encounters. Boyer is 'writing around' the Smithsons' work by considering the cultural contexts in which they formed and wrote about their ideas.Boyer explains that the Smithsons were intensely concerned with the responsibility of the architect to ensure the quality of place, to build with lyrical appropriateness. They reached back to the country landscapes of their childhood and, Boyer argues, mixed their brand of New Brutalism with the English Picturesque. The Smithsons saw architects as both inheritors and passers-on. Their writings offer juxtapositions and connections, resembling an association of interactive loops, ideas waiting to be transmuted into built form. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!! Codice articolo 311006
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Foto dell'editore
Not Quite Architecture: Writing around Alison and Peter Smithson
Editore:
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2017
ISBN 10: 0262035510
ISBN 13: 9780262035514
Antico o usato
Rilegato
Da: Montana Book Company, Fond du Lac, WI, U.S.A.
Valutazione del venditore 5 su 5 stelle
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 504 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Near fine dust jacket. Book still in original publisher shrink wrap. Remainder mark bottom fore-edge. Codice articolo 082502
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Foto dell'editore
Not Quite Architecture - Writing around Alison and Peter Smithson
Da: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Valutazione del venditore 4 su 5 stelle
Condizione: New. Codice articolo 26375185415
Quantità: 3 disponibili
Immagini fornite dal venditore
Not Quite Architecture : Writing Around Alison and Peter Smithson
Da: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Valutazione del venditore 5 su 5 stelle
Condizione: New. Codice articolo 27725806-n
Quantità: 15 disponibili
Foto dell'editore
Not Quite Architecture : Writing around Alison and Peter Smithson
Da: Romtrade Corp., STERLING HEIGHTS, MI, U.S.A.
Valutazione del venditore 5 su 5 stelle
Condizione: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide. Codice articolo ABNR-210557
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Foto dell'editore
Not Quite Architecture : Writing around Alison and Peter Smithson
Da: Basi6 International, Irving, TX, U.S.A.
Valutazione del venditore 5 su 5 stelle
Condizione: Brand New. New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service. Codice articolo ABEJUNE24-69495
Quantità: 4 disponibili