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In 1984, German furniture-maker Axel Bruchhäuser reached out to architectural duo Alison (1928-93) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003) with a playful letter ostensibly written by his cat and addressed to theirs. The letter between cats inquired about commissioning the Smithsons to build several lookouts on Bruchhäuser's home, known locally as the "Hexenhaus" (the "Witches' House"--a common name in the area where the Brothers Grimm wrote their fairy tales). Started in 1986 and completed in 2001, and located in a dense forest in Hessen, the renovation that the Smithsons undertook constituted an example of what they called "law of the conglomerate." Step by step, the house was expanded and opened to admit the light as well the trees, which became part of the interior. The house's primary materials are wood and glass, providing a poetic example of latticework and a stunning use of natural light.

Smithson, Alison --- Smithson, Peter --- 72.07 --- Smithson, Alison en Peter --- Smithson, Alison M. (Margaret Gill) 1928-1993 (°Sheffield, Groot-Brittannië) --- Smithson, Peter 1923-2003 (°Stockton-on-Tees, Groot-Brittannië) --- New Brutalism --- Radicale architectuur ; 20ste eeuw --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Architecture --- Maison résidentielle --- Smithson, Alison, --- Smithson, Peter, --- Hesse (Allemagne) --- Allemagne --- Architecture - Allemagne --- Smithson, Alison, - 1928-1993. - Hexenhaus --- Smithson, Peter, - 1923-2003. - Hexenhaus --- Hesse (Allemagne) - Maison résidentielle --- Allemagne - Hesse

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The English architects Alison Smithson (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003) were ringleaders of the New Brutalism, active in CIAM and Team 10, and influential in English Pop Art. The Smithsons, who met as architecture students, built only a few buildings but wrote prolifically throughout their career, leaving a body of writings that consider issues in architecture and urbanism and also take up subjects that are "not quite architecture" (the name of a series of articles written by Alison Smithson for the Architects' Journal) -- including fashion design, graphic communication, and children's tales. In this book, M. Christine Boyer explores the Smithsons' writings -- books, articles, lectures, unpublished manuscripts, and private papers. She focuses on unpublished material, reading the letter, the scribbled note, the undelivered lecture, the scrapbook, the "magic box," as words in the language of modern architectural history - especially that of postwar England, where the Smithsons and other architects were at the center of the richest possible range of cultural encounters. Boyer is "writing around" the Smithsons' work by considering the cultural contexts in which they formed and wrote about their ideas. Boyer explains that the Smithsons were intensely concerned with the responsibility of the architect to ensure the quality of place, to build with lyrical appropriateness. They reached back to the country landscapes of their childhood and, Boyer argues, mixed their brand of New Brutalism with the English Picturesque.

Architecture, Modern --- 72.07 --- 72.01 --- 72.038 --- Architectuur ; geschriften ; Alison en Peter Smithson --- Architectuur ; vnl. Groot-Brittannië ; 20ste eeuw --- Architectuur ; 20ste eeuw ; A. en P. Smithson --- New Brutalism --- Moderne Beweging --- Smithson, Alison M. (Margaret Gill) 1928-1993 (°Sheffield, Groot-Brittannië) --- Smithson, Peter 1923-2003 (°Stockton-on-Tees, Groot-Brittannië) --- Architecture --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- History --- Smithson, Alison, --- Smithson, Peter, --- Smithson, Alison Margaret --- Written works. --- Gill, Alison Margaret, --- Smithson, Alison --- Smithson, Alison - 1928-1993 --- Smithson, Peter - 1923-2003