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		<title>The Grinning Smithsons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Milliss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As their greatest and most heroic project is about to bite the dust after decades of slow demolition by neglect, Alison and Peter Smithson&#8217;s remaining body of work increasingly looks like the Cheshire cat&#8217;s grin &#8211; exactly at the point when they seem to be vanishing they are also achieving a prominence they haven&#8217;t enjoyed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As <a href="http://kosmograd.typepad.com/kosmograd/2008/07/the-secret-life.html" target="_blank">their greatest and most heroic project</a> is about to bite the dust after decades of slow demolition by neglect, Alison and Peter Smithson&#8217;s remaining body of work increasingly looks like the Cheshire cat&#8217;s grin &#8211; exactly at the point when they seem to be vanishing they are also achieving a prominence they haven&#8217;t enjoyed in decades.</p>
<p>Irony just isn&#8217;t a strong enough word to describe the situation where two highly influential architects who devoted most of their lives to developing models for social housing will end up being represented by <a href="http://www.open2.net/modernity/html/hunstanton_school.html" target="_blank">a school</a>, a number of <a href="http://www.lablog.org.uk/wp-content/051123-hexenhaus.pdf">delightful but unrepresentative middle class houses</a>, <a href="http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/929535e8.html" target="_blank">an office building</a> and finally a shed.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="smithson levitt shed" src="/wp-content/uploads/images/smithson-shed.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="419" /></p>
<p>But it&#8217;s a great shed, and <a href="http://www.themodernhouse.net/docs/accommodation.php?id=0:161:16" target="_blank">it&#8217;s for sale</a>. The whole project is near to, and reminiscent of, their own weekender, the refreshingly ascetic <a href="http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/05/dont-be-brutal-to-robin-hood-gardens/" target="_blank">Upper Lawn Pavilion</a>. It&#8217;s hard to imagine a more exciting prospect for adaptive reuse &#8211; beautiful (in a rustic brutalist way), spectacular pedigree, fashionably tiny &#8211; it&#8217;s got it all.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="levitt house" src="/wp-content/uploads/images/levitt-house.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="419" /></p>
<p>It&#8217;s in the garden of the Levitt house, pretty spectacular in its own right. We found it through one of our favourite (architectural) porn sites,  <a href="http://www.materialicious.com/" target="_blank">materialicious</a>.</p>
<p>And meanwhile Owen Hatherley of <a href="http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com/2008/09/holiday.html" target="_blank">sit down man you&#8217;re a bloody tragedy</a> has taken a holiday to visit the Smithson&#8217;s Hunstanton Secondary Modern School, an enlightening but bleak experience by all accounts.</p>
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