Upper Lawn, Solar Pavilion - Alison & Peter Smithson plants but by a bricolage-like attitude

but by a bricolage-like attitude toward art making

mainly from the Bauhaus-Archiv such as drawings

from the fruit and vegetable grower revolutionizing our understanding of fertility

On 300 pages he shares his impressions

Glenn Ligon

Upper Lawn, Solar Pavilion - Alison & Peter Smithson plants but by a bricolage-like attitudeIn 1958, the architects Alison and Peter Smithson bought a derelict cottage on the Fonthill Estate in Wiltshire, southwest England. Over the next four years they transformed it into a country home for their young family and an extended experiment in the methods and materials that would shape their practice; a pavilion drawing on the tradition of the English folly, known as Upper Lawn or the Solar Pavilion. Retaining the cottages original stone walls