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Archive images of the Robin Hood Gardens by Alison and Peter Smithson

Girl on a Street in the Sky, Robin Hood Gardens, 1972. Photograph © Sandra Lousada

The Robin Hood Gardens represents an attempt to overcome the design rigidity of the modern movement’s pioneers regarding housing estates. According to the historian and critic Reyner Banham, the Smithsons’ design was “Architecture of the Second Machine Age”.

Archive images of the Robin Hood Gardens by Alison and Peter Smithson

Alison Smithson at the 1976 Venice Biennale, photographed by Peter Smithson, 1976. Courtesy of the Smithson Family Collection

The Robin Hood Gardens represents an attempt to overcome the design rigidity of the modern movement’s pioneers regarding housing estates. According to the historian and critic Reyner Banham, the Smithsons’ design was “Architecture of the Second Machine Age”.

Archive images of the Robin Hood Gardens by Alison and Peter Smithson

Peter Smithson at the 1976 Venice Biennale, photographed by Alison Smithson, 1976. Courtesy of the Smithson Family Collection

The Robin Hood Gardens represents an attempt to overcome the design rigidity of the modern movement’s pioneers regarding housing estates. According to the historian and critic Reyner Banham, the Smithsons’ design was “Architecture of the Second Machine Age”.

Archive images of the Robin Hood Gardens by Alison and Peter Smithson

Deck of Robin Hood Gardens with Alison Smithson, photographed by Peter Smithson,
about 1970. Courtesy of the Smithson Family Collection

The Robin Hood Gardens represents an attempt to overcome the design rigidity of the modern movement’s pioneers regarding housing estates. According to the historian and critic Reyner Banham, the Smithsons’ design was “Architecture of the Second Machine Age”.

Archive images of the Robin Hood Gardens by Alison and Peter Smithson

Slides of interiors, circa 1970, by Peter Smithson. Courtesy of The Smithson Family Collection

The Robin Hood Gardens represents an attempt to overcome the design rigidity of the modern movement’s pioneers regarding housing estates. According to the historian and critic Reyner Banham, the Smithsons’ design was “Architecture of the Second Machine Age”.

Archive images of the Robin Hood Gardens by Alison and Peter Smithson

Slides of interiors, circa 1970, by Peter Smithson. Courtesy of The Smithson Family Collection

The Robin Hood Gardens represents an attempt to overcome the design rigidity of the modern movement’s pioneers regarding housing estates. According to the historian and critic Reyner Banham, the Smithsons’ design was “Architecture of the Second Machine Age”.

Archive images of the Robin Hood Gardens by Alison and Peter Smithson

Slides of interiors, circa 1970, by Peter Smithson. Courtesy of The Smithson Family Collection

The Robin Hood Gardens represents an attempt to overcome the design rigidity of the modern movement’s pioneers regarding housing estates. According to the historian and critic Reyner Banham, the Smithsons’ design was “Architecture of the Second Machine Age”.

Archive images of the Robin Hood Gardens by Alison and Peter Smithson

Yellow triangle detail of Robin Hood Gardens circa 1970, photographed by Peter Smithson. Photo courtesy of The Smithson Family Collection

The Robin Hood Gardens represents an attempt to overcome the design rigidity of the modern movement’s pioneers regarding housing estates. According to the historian and critic Reyner Banham, the Smithsons’ design was “Architecture of the Second Machine Age”.

Archive images of the Robin Hood Gardens by Alison and Peter Smithson

Door of Robin Hood Gardens, circa 1970, photographed by Peter Smithson. Photo courtesy of The Smithson Family Collection

The Robin Hood Gardens represents an attempt to overcome the design rigidity of the modern movement’s pioneers regarding housing estates. According to the historian and critic Reyner Banham, the Smithsons’ design was “Architecture of the Second Machine Age”.

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