Alison Smithson Mat Building

Alison smithson stated that mat building can be said to epitomise the anonymous collective.

Alison smithson mat building.

Alison margaret smithson 22 june 1928 14 august 1993 and peter denham smithson 18 september 1923 3 march 2003 were english architects who together formed an architectural partnership and are often associated with the new brutalism especially in architectural and urban theory. Introduced by alison smithson mat building provided an individual freedom of movement through the city by weaving close knit patterns of association between objects in a dense internal language of circulation. Mat building can be said to epitomise the anonymous collective. Mainstream architecture as it has developed towards the mat building published in the architectural design issue of september 1974 included a definition of this type of building and an extensive list of works and projects from the 1950s to the 1970s related to it.

Before alison smithson called this type of architecture mat building in 1974 shadrach woods had already referred to the free university of berlin as a groundscraper. The first team 10 review of the field of its thought became collectively covered in the primer ad 12 61. In her search for signs that identify mats alison smithson goes back to katsura sinan honan the vaulted constructions of greek and arabic archi tecture as well as mies van der rohe s work in america. In some sketches for that competition woods declared in skyscraper type buildings disciplines tend to be segregated.

Dpa 27 28 diciembre 2011 departament de projectes arquitectònics barcelona. Sin embargo alison smithson fue quien por primera vez intentó conceptualizarlo. Where the functions come to enrich the fabric and the individual gains new freedoms of action through a new and shuffled order based on interconnection close knit patterns of association and possibilities for growth diminution and change. We owe the term mat building to alison smithson.

Donde las funciones vienen a enriquecer lo construido y el individuo adquiere nuevas li bertades de actuación gracias a un nuevo y cambiante orden basado en la inter conexión los tupidos patrones de asociación y las posibilidades de crecimiento. The discourse of mat building emerged from the smithson s fascination with the traditional arabic kasbah smithson 1974. Where the functions ome to entich the fabric and the individual gains new freedoms of action through a new and shuffled order based on interconnection close knit patterns of association and possibilities for growth diminution and change the way towards mat building started blindly enough. Débora domingo calabuig raúl castellanos gómez jorge torres cueco se puede decir que el mat building personifi ca el anónimo colectivo.

En 1974 publicó el artículo how to recognise and read mat building en el que trataba una nueva noción arquitectónica cargada intencionadamente de una gran ambigüedad.