Alison and Peter Smithson: Upper lawn, solar pavilion Robert J. Kett 30 X 24 cm

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disconcerting or discordant connections

Ces maisons ont sciemment choisi de s'affranchir des typologies traditionnelles et refusent toute surdétermination de l'espace domestique

Struth's images allow us to fully appreciate a city's character--from its telephone wires above to the pavement below

Alison and Peter Smithson: Upper lawn, solar pavilion Robert J. Kett 30 X 24 cmIn 1958, the architects Alison and Peter Smithson bought a derelict cottage on the Fonthill Estate in Wiltshire, southwest England. Over the next four years they transformed it into a country home for their young family and an extended experiment in the methods and materials that would shape their practice; a pavilion drawing on the tradition of the English folly, known as Upper Lawn or the Solar Pavilion. Retaining the cottages original stone walls