{"product_id":"not-quite-architecture-writing-around-alison-and-peter-smithson-the-mit-press-9780262035514","title":"Not Quite Architecture Writing Around Alison and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of published and unpublished writings of Alison and Peter Smithson, considering them in the context of the debates and discourses of postwar architecture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eArchitects'' Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)—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 In this book, M. Christine Boyer explores the Smithsons'' writings—books, articles, lectures, unpublished manuscripts, and private papers. She focuses on unpublished material, readi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733446144343,"sku":"9780262035514","price":30.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/not-quite-architecture-writing-around-alison-and-peter-smithson-the-mit-press-9780262035514","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}