Smithson alison margaret (15 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black-and-white book about the heroic period on modern architecture. The book was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson. Very good copy. No marks. Clean.

Wraps. Condizione: Near Fiine. 80 pp. Great b/w chronology. Slight shelf wear, small corner crease on rear, else new.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Good condition with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Jumbo-sized. Oversized.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Like New.

Condizione: very good. Gently used. May include previous owner's signature or bookplate on the front endpaper, sticker on back and/or remainder mark on text block.

Paperback. Condizione: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Condition of Hardback book and Dustjacket. Very Good. A nice firm clean copy. Has very slight spotting on top edge pages. Hardly noticeable. Until recently the ideas of Alison and Peter Smithson have been known mainly to those professionally involved in architecture and urban design. This is so because they have presented their ideas usually in project form, accompanied by elliptical texts designed to prevent the building up of rigid thought patterns in the minds of those studying them. Ordinariness and Light, by contrast, is an extended exploration of their theories and work over the past seventeen years, in which not only their aesthetic but also their political and emotional concerns are made plain. The book brings together a previously unpublished long text of 1952-53, "Urban Re-identification," and a sequence of later essays and statements. All this material has been revised for the present volume, and provided with a linking commentary. The general theme is "the invention of an architecture structured by notions of association." The authors argue that the form of the city and the town must correspond to the human needs of the present; looser knit than in the past, even the quite recent past; more open and changing. And for city and town to correspond to this pattern of society there must be better systems of physical communication, and new form-concepts through which society can recognize and realize its new self. The arguments, examples, and illustrations in the book show how a very small shift in our way of looking at the ordinary things that go to make up cities and towns could restore to them their rich classic connotations. Houses would once more feel like places of adventure, as well as security; roads would be made to give a sense of cohesion and connection, as well as of release. For the Smithsons, to sense an "ordering" in things is to feel liberated and free to use them. Ordinariness and Light will enable all who are exercised about the deterioration of urban life to share their dream of cities that can breathe. It may help, perhaps, to generate in society at large that kind of committed participation that their notion of "ordering" implies. 195pp.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Cover slightly worn and browned.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American Edition. First Ameerican edition. 8vo; 195 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Urban theories 1952-60, and their application in a building project 1963-70.

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Sticker on back. Mild general wear. Pages clean. Binding sound.