Alison and Peter Smithson – Not Quite Architecture

Wife and husband pair Alison (1928–1993) and Peter Smithson (1923–2003) formed a partnership that led British Brutalism through the latter half of the twentieth century. Beginning with a vocabulary of stripped down modernism, the pair was among the first to question and challenge modernist approaches to design and urban planning. Instead, they helped evolve the style into what became Brutalism, becoming proponents of the “streets in the sky” approach to housing.