ENGLISH

SMITHSONS CHANGING ART INHABI

By Peter Smithson , Alison Smithson

Book information

Publisher
ellipsis London Ltd
Year
1994
ISBN
1874056374, 9781874056379
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (16025023 bytes)
Pages
160\80
Time added
2023-05-17 15:34:55

Description

This book comprises edited essays, notes and letters spanning thirty years -- many previously unpublished -- richly illustrated with documentary drawings and photographs. The theme of the collection, developed through the Smithsons' reactions to the work of Mies van der Rohe and Charles and Ray Eames, is the influence across generations of architects, transforming over time the way the 'art of inhabitation' is practiced. The influence of Mies on the Smithsons' work is widely recognised; perhaps more surprising is the profound and subtle influence of the Eames' work on the Brutalist Smithsons. The book presents a fascinatingly intimate account of the way Mies and the Eames revolutionised architecture and design, as felt by two articulate and thoughtful practitioners, rather than the views of cultural historians.

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