Ordinariness and Light – Urban theories 1952–60, and their application in a building project 1963–70 – by Alison and Peter Smithson (The MIT Press 1970) bring together their urban thinking, political and emotional concerns, and architectural aesthetic.
The book brings together a previously unpublished long text of 1952–53, “Urban Re-idenfication,” and a sequence of later essays and statements. All this material has been revised for the present volume, and provided with a linking commentary. The general theme is “the invention of an architecture structured by notions of association.” (…) The arguments, examples, and illustrations in the book show how a very small shift in our way of looking at the ordinary things that go to make up cities and towns could restore to them their rich classic connotations.
– Alison and Peter Smithson, Ordinariness and Light (The MIT Press, 1970), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English. The book is profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The dust jacket shows some small signs of edge wear and some signs of shelf wear and use.
