AS in DS Cover

Alison and Peter Smithson

AS in DS

An Eye on the Road

An illustrated diary by the architects Alison and Peter Smithson (representing the Independent Group – see also As found) driving from their London office through to their Wiltshire cottage, their “Solar Pavilion” from 1961. The contrast of their Citroën DS 19, streamlined and mechanically advanced, with the luscious and picturesque landscape links – thanks to the observing eye – both the urban and the countryside in the most sensitive manner. The book was conceived as “A Sensibility Primer.” Reprint of the original publication from 1983, edited by Christian Sumi, architect, Zürich.

An illustrated diary by the architects Alison and Peter Smithson (representing the Independent Group – see also As found) driving from their London office through to their Wiltshire cottage, their “Solar Pavilion” from 1961. The contrast of their Citroën DS 19, streamlined and mechanically advanced, with the luscious and picturesque landscape links – thanks to the observing eye – both the urban and the countryside in the most sensitive manner. The book was conceived as “A Sensibility Primer.” Reprint of the original publication from 1983, edited by Christian Sumi, architect, Zürich.

Author(s): Alison Smithson, Peter Smithson

Edited by Christian Sumi

11,5 x 29 cm, 4 ½ x 11 ½ in

164 pages, 70 illustrations

paperback

2001, 978-3-907078-42-6, English
CHF 100.00
Out of print

Christian Sumi

Christian Sumi graduated from the Zurich Polytechnic, where he worked for the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture (gta). He has taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design GSD, the Lausanne Polytechnic EPFL and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. From 2008 to 2016 he had a full professorship at the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio AAM, together with Marianne Burkhalter. Since 1984, Sumi and Burkhalter have been running an architectural practice in Zurich. The firm acquired an international reputation by, among other things, transformations of existing structures, new housing typologies, hotels and innovative wooden constructions and distinctive use of polychrome colors. Sumi also made a number of exhibition installations: "Gottfried Semper" and "Robots" for the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (2004 and 2009); "The unexpected view" and "Konrad Wachsmann – the Grapevine Structure" for La Biennale di Venice (2014 and 2018). He is the editor of the reprint of Alison and Peter Smithson's publication “AS in DS,” published by Lars Müller Publishers (2001).