The Charged Void: Architecture

by Alison Smithson

Alison and Peter Smithson, founders of Team X and authors of the classic Team X Primer, are among the most influential architects of the postwar decades. Their reevaluation of modernism shifted the focus of architecture and urbanism toward the particularities and uniqueness of human associations, urban patterns, and climatic conditions. Many of their ideas, both social (cluster and human association) and architectural (Brutalism, the nature of materials),...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580930506
• ISBN13: 9781580930505
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 6.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 10.0" x 11.0"