Built Projects
Their built projects include:
- Smithdon High School, Hunstanton, Norfolk (1949–1954; a Grade II* listed building)
- The House of the Future exhibition (at the 1956 Ideal Home Show)
- Sugden House, Watford
- The Economist Building, Piccadilly, London (1959–1965)
- 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 (1969–1972)
- Buildings at the University of Bath, including the School of Architecture and Building Engineering (1988)
- The last project the Cantilever-Chair Museum of the Bauhaus design company TECTA in Lauenfoerde, Germany
Robin Hood Gardens suffered from high costs associated with the system selected and high levels of crime, all of which undermined the architects' vision of streets in the sky and their architectural reputation. With the exception of their work at Bath, they designed no further public buildings in Britain, relying instead 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).
Read more about this topic: Alison And Peter Smithson
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