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Robin Hood Gardens

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Description: Robin Hood Gardens

TitleRobin Hood Gardens

Creator nameAlison and Peter Smithson

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1972

Object typeArchitecture

LocationLondon

SubjectsArchitecture, Modern--20th century--PhilosophyHousing development--England--20th centuryArchitecture--England--History--20th centuryCity planning--England--20th century

StatusGeneral view from north

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4. From Golden Lane to Robin Hood Gardens: Or If You Follow the Yellow Brick Road, It May Not Lead to Golders Green

Description: Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963–1988

Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963–1988

The making of architecture can be said to be a continuing dialectic between ideas and forms. Certain ideas and metaphors have the power to suggest buildings. Equally, certain buildings, by virtue of their form, can imply a use and even suggest a way of life. Each is no more or no less architecture. Both are rare. Few ideas have been...

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PublisherYale University Press

Copyright©2004 by Yale University

Related print edition pages: pp.40-56

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Chapter subject tags:Architectural theory--20th centuryAlison and Peter Smithson (Firm)Modern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryHousing development--Great Britain--20th centuryLe Corbusier, 1887-1965

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