Ordinariness and Light

by Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262190826
• ISBN13: 9780262190824
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.