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Caroline Voet reviews an expanded edition of the 1986 book by Enric Miralles with Alison and Peter Smithson, about their Upper Lawn Solar Pavilion
his book revisits the poetic diary, edited in 1986 with Eric Miralles, of the Smithson’s Upper Lawn Solar Pavilion, one of the most intriguing primary houses ever (re-)made. The book invites the reader into all the layers that formed the house, from the environmental concerns and experimentation, to the history and topography of the place, to patterns of family use and appropriation. The peculiar intensity of the book as part of the project grows from the fact that all of these are blended together by Alison Smithson’s diary fragments and both their photography, offering the reader to become part of the evolving nature, life and construction works at the pavilion.
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