page_title: Alison and Peter Smithson
section_title: Built projects
hierarchical_section_title: Alison and Peter Smithson / Built projects
caption_attribution_description: English: Garden building, St. Hilda's college, Oxford 1967-1970. Architects: Peter and Alison Smithson (1923-2003 &amp; 1928-1993).
context_page_description: Alison Margaret Smithson and Peter Denham Smithson were English architects who together formed an architectural partnership, and are often associated with the New Brutalism.
context_section_description: Their built projects include:
  Smithdon High School, Hunstanton, Norfolk (1949–54; a Grade II* listed building)
  The House of the Future exhibition (at the 1956 Ideal Home Show)
  Sugden House, Watford (1956)
  Upper Lawn Pavillion, Fonthill Estate, Tisbury, Wiltshire (1959–62)
  The Economist Building, Piccadilly, London (1959–65)
  Garden building, St Hilda's College, Oxford (1968)
  Private house extension for Lord Kennet, Bayswater, London, 1960
  Robin Hood Gardens housing complex, Poplar, East London (1969–72)
  Buildings at the University of Bath, including the School of Architecture and Building Engineering (1988)
  Their last project: the Cantilever-Chair Museum of the Bauhaus design company TECTA in Lauenfoerde, Germany
  Robin Hood Gardens was under construction when B. S. Johnson made a short film about the couple for the BBC, The Smithsons on Housing (1970). Sukhdev Sandhu, in a blog entry for the London Telegraph website, wrote that "they drone in self-pitying fashion about vandals and local naysayers to such an extent that any traces of visionary utopianism are extinguished." The finished flats suffered from high costs associated with the system selected and from high levels of crime, all of which undermined the modernist vision of 'streets in the sky' and the Smithsons' architectural reputation. In 2017, with the flats set to be demolished, a three-storey section including a walkway and maisonette interiors was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
  They would go on to design several buildings at Bath, while relying mainly on private overseas commissions and Peter Smithson's writing and teaching (he was a visiting professor at Bath from 1978 to 1990, and also a unit master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture).
caption: Garden building, St Hilda's College, Oxford (1968)
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