Without Rhetoric: An Architectural Aesthetic 1955-1972

by Peter Smithson and Alison Smithson

"When le Corbusier assembled Vers Une Architecture,"write the Smithsons, "he gave to young architects everywhere a way of looking at the emergent machine-served society, and from that, a way of looking at antiquity and a rationale to support his personal aesthetic. Viollet-le-Duc had performed the same service to architects before le Corbusier: the role they played is traditional to the development of architecture. In this essay, based on material...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262191199
• ISBN13: 9780262191197
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.