The Charged Void Architecture

An overview of the works by the influential postwar architects features theirajor projects from the 1940s to the mid 1990s, including the Hunstantonecondary School, the Golden Lane Housing, Sheffield University, and theconomist Group.

Alison and Peter Smithson produced one of the most significant and influential bodies of work of the second half of the twentieth century. Their books include Urban Structuring, Ordinariness and Light, Without Rhetoric, The Shift, and Team X Primer. Alison Smithson died in 1993, and Peter Smithson died in 2003, two years after the publication of The Charged Void: Architecture.

Intention

10

(2)

Evolution

12

(2)

Observation

14

(6)

Simple Inheritors

Town Planning Studies (1946--48)

20

(1)

Crematorium at Gosforth Park (1947)

21

(3)

Royal Academy (1949)

24

(4)

Fitzwilliam Museum (1948--49)

28

(5)

Vertical Feature and Restaurant, Festival of Britain (1949)

33

(7)

Transmissions and Connections

Hunstanton Secondary Modern School (1949--54)

40

(28)

Coventry Cathedral (1950--51)

68

(13)

Limerston Street (1953--61)

81

(5)

Graphics of Movement

Golden Lane (1952)

86

(10)

Colville Place (1952)

96

(2)

Offices for the Electricity Board, Kampala (1952--53)

98

(4)

House Extension, Alderbury (1953)

102

(1)

One-Thousand-Square-Foot House (1952--53)

103

(1)

Cheddar House of Cheese (1955)

104

(1)

Doha Hospital (1953)

105

(3)

Sheffield University (1953)

108

(10)

Structuring of Spaces

`Parallel of Life and Art' Exhibition (1953)

118

(6)

Bates' Burrows Lea Farm (1953--55)

124

(6)

Five Projects for `Housing Appropriate to the Valley Section' (1954--56)

130

(1)

Isolate: Bates' Burrows Lea Farm

131

(3)

Hamlet: Galleon Cottages

134

(1)

Village: Fold Houses

135

(1)

Town: Close Houses

136

(2)

City: Terraced Crescent Housing

138

(2)

Chance Glass Flat and Mammoth Terrace House Conversion/Renewal (1953--56)

140

(2)

Crematorium at Kirkcaldy (1954)

142

(1)

Caro House (1954--91)

143

(1)

Rumble Villa (1954)

144

(2)

Bark Place Mews (1954--56)

146

(2)

Monument on the Goodwin Sands and a Church Sort of Place (1955)

148

(1)

Pierced Wall Structure (1955)

149

(1)

Sugden House (1955--56)

150

(7)

Hot Springs (1955)

157

(5)

Conglomerate Ordering

House of the Future (1955--56)

162

(16)

Patio and Pavilion, `This is Tomorrow' Exhibition (1956)

178

(10)

Sydney Opera House (1956)

188

(2)

Appliance Houses (1956--58):

190

(2)

Snowball House

192

(1)

Bread House

193

(1)

Cubicle House or Cupboard House

193

(1)

Portico Row and the `Wareite' or White `Formica' House

194

(1)

The Strip House

195

(1)

Provencal House

196

(1)

Cordell Studio House (1957)

197

(1)

English Climate House (1957)

198

(2)

Berlin Hauptstadt (1957)

200

(6)

Wokingham Infants School (1958)

206

(6)

Langside College of Further Education (1958)

212

(4)

Paolozzi Studio House (1959)

216

(2)

Retirement House (1959)

218

(6)

Pavilion and Route

Wayland Young Pavilion, Bayswater (1959--82)

224

(6)

Churchill College (1959)

230

(8)

Folly . . . A `Solar' Pavilion, Upper Lawn (1959--82)

238

(10)

The Economist Building (1959--64)

248

(32)

Losey House (1959--61)

280

(1)

Cliff House (1959--61)

281

(1)

Redington Road (1960)

282

(1)

Seafront Flats (1960)

283

(1)

Iraqi House (1960--61)

284

(4)

Steilshoop (1961)

288

(1)

Priory Walk (1961--71)

289

(3)

Mehringplatz (1962)

292

(4)

Robin Hood Gardens (1966--72)

296

(18)

Occupational Health Clinic (1962--64)

314

(2)

`Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 1954--1964' Exhibition (1963--64)

316

(10)

Layers of Fabric, Layers of Meaning

`Extensions of Man' Exhibition (1962)

326

(2)

British Embassy, Brasilia (1964--68)

328

(8)

Burleigh Lane Houses (1965--66)

336

(2)

Crispin Hall (1965--66)

338

(2)

Garden Building, St. Hilda's College, Oxford (1967--70)

340

(12)

Wedding in the City (1968)

352

(4)

Government Offices, Kuwait (1970)

356

(10)

New Model House (1971)

366

(1)

Married Graduate Flats and Squash Courts, Queen's College, Oxford (1971)

367

(1)

Gilston Road, South Kensington (1971)

368

(1)

Cherry Garden Pier (1972--76, 1983)

369

(3)

Battlebridge Basin (1972--74)

372

(8)

The Treillage'd Space

Lucas Headquarters (1973--74)

380

(6)

`A Line of Trees . . . A Steel Structure' Exhibition (1975, 1976)

386

(2)

Magdalen College, Oxford (1974)

388

(4)

Adalbergstrasse (1975)

392

(1)

`Sticks and Stones' Exhibition (1976)

393

(1)

The Yellow House at an Intersection (1976)

394

(2)

Solar-Energy-Collecting Pyramid, Giza (1976)

396

(1)

Landwehrkanal (1976)

397

(1)

Riverside Apartments, Millbank (1976--77)

398

(4)

Anil Avenue Commercial Offices, Khartoum (1976--77)

402

(6)

Variable-Density Plans, Variable-Density Sections

Cubitt Houses (1977)

408

(1)

Langennith Cluster Housing (1977)

409

(1)

Landscape into Art (1977):

410

(1)

Swinging Elland

411

(1)

Kingsbury Lookouts

412

(2)

Tees Pudding

414

(1)

The Slaggie Eleven of the Spenymoor Slag Heaps

415

(1)

Skateboard Junction

416

(1)

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Approach

417

(1)

Leafy Arbours over the Verbindungskanal (1977)

418

(1)

Cookies' Nook (1977)

419

(1)

A House with Two Gantries (1977)

420

(6)

The Harnessing of Light

Pahlavi National Library (1977--78)

426

(6)

Walk in the Dry Passages and New West End to Worcester Cathedral (1977--78)

432

(4)

Colleges' Gate, Colleges' Path, and Distance Stones, Urbino (1979--83)

436

(2)

Amenity Building, University of Bath (1978--80, 1984--85)

438

(6)

Melbourne's Magic Mountains (1979--80)

444

(2)

Damascus Gate (1979--81)

446

(2)

`Twenty-Four Doors to Christmas' Exhibition (1979)

448

(8)

Interval

Second Arts Building, University of Bath (1979--81)

456

(12)

Der Berlinerbaum (1980)

468

(3)

Christmas Hogmanay (1980--81)

471

(5)

Sun Acceptance/Energy Containment

Arts Barn, University of Bath (1980--81, 1990)

476

(8)

Lutzowstrasse Housing (1980)

484

(6)

Lutzowstrasse Apartments for the Elderly (1980)

490

(1)

Lutzowstrasse Youth Centre (1980)

491

(1)

Lutzowstrasse Child-Care Centre (1980)

492

(4)

National Gallery (1982)

496

(6)

Parc de la Villette (1982)

502

(12)

Sensibility to Car Movement

Communal Houses on Two Sites, Urban and Rural, Delft (1982--83)

514

(2)

Second Polytechnic, Hong Kong (1982)

516

(1)

Porta Camollia, Siena (1983)

517

(1)

School of Architecture and Building Engineering, University of Bath (1982--88)

518

(18)

Twenty-First-Century Tenement, Maryhill (1984)

536

(8)

Roofs and Ways

Animal House, University of Bath (1981)

544

(1)

Area di Pre, Genova (1981)

545

(1)

Come Deck the Hall (1981)

546

(1)

Porch to University Hall, University of Bath (1983)

547

(1)

Bath as a Fringed Mat (1983)

548

(2)

Agitation of Surface, Siena (1985)

550

(1)

Restoration of Territory, Rackeve (1985)

551

(1)

Axel's Porch (1986)

552

(8)

Outside Inside

The Toilet Tree, Tecta (1986--90)

560

(2)

Triangle Workshop (1987)

562

(1)

Janus, Siena (1987)

563

(1)

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (1989)

564

(7)

Tecta Paths (1990)

571

(1)

Riverbank Window (1990)

572

(1)

Hexenhaus Holes (1990)

573

(1)

Tecta Canteen Porch (1990)

574

(2)

Acropolis Place (1990)

576

(8)

Hexenbesenraum (1990--96)

584

(4)

Beverungen Roof (1990)

588

(1)

Brodia Road (1990--95)

589

(1)

Deodar Road (1991--99)

590

(2)

Tischleindeckdich (1992--93)

592

(2)

Tecta Yard Gates (1992)

594

(1)

Porter House (1993--95)

595

(1)

Attributions

596

(2)

Index

598

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The Charged Void Architecture

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