C20 Director Catherine Croft and Ken Barker discuss Alison and Peter Smithson’s seminal housing estate and the campaign to save it from demolition. Robin Hood Gardens is a council housing complex in Poplar, London designed in the late 1960s by a...
Robin Hood Gardens in Tower Hamlets, is regarded as one of post war Britain’s most important social housing developments, designed by architects of international stature, husband and wife team Alison and Peter Smithson. The 1972 Brutalist housing c...
Alison and Peter Smithson (1966-72). Unlisted This iconic social housing development consists of two perimeter blocks of six and nine storeys with an irregular landscaped space between them. The inward-looking blocks are built of pre-cast concrete...
We have requested a review of the DCMS’s decision not to list Alison and Peter Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens. Here are some of what we consider to the most interesting and compelling points to have come out of the proofs of evidence provided for ...
C20 Society Looks Back in Anger at Britain’s Lost Heritage Some of Britain’s most dynamic and expressive buildings are being lost to the developers’ wrecking ball because the speed of demolition increasingly outpaces heritage recognition, sa...
To mark our 40th anniversary we asked a number of our members and supporters to talk about how and why they joined C20 Society, and which buildings matter to them. Watch out for more coming soon....
Brutalism is big business in the media, with TV programmes, books and blogs of varying quality. The pioneer of the genre was perhaps Owen Hatherley, who in 2007 called for a reaction against the cosy humanism of an Alvar Aalto exhibition in favour of...
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