Modernism Without Rhetoric: Essays on the Work of Alison and Peter Smithson - Hardcover

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HELENA WEBSTER studied architecture at Sheffield and Universities, and has worked as an architect for a number of practices including Colin St John Wilson & Partners, and Michael Hopkins and Partners. Since 1992 she has combined private practice with teaching architecture, firstly at the University of Bath School of Architecture and Civil Engineering and from 1996 at the University of Sheffield School of Architectural Studies. She currently combines lecturing with writing a PhD thesis on 'New Brutalism' and is working as an architect on the design of a new building in Sheffield for the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Contributors:

Patrick Hodgkinson is a well-known architect and critic, and a contemporary of the Smithsons. He is Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Bath.

Richard Padovan is a leading academic of twentieth-century architectural theory who specialises in Dutch architecture. He lectures on architecture at the University of Bath and recently published a book on the work of Dom Hans van der Laan.

Derek Sugden is a distinguished engineer who has worked for Arup Acoustics for most of his career and now has a private consultancy. In 1955 he commissioned the Smithsons to build Farm Field (The Sugden House).

Fouad Samara completed the final year of the Barch at the University of Bath in 1995 and wrote his dissertation on the Smithsons' building for the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Bath, Building 6 East.