“Photograph showing Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Alice and Peter Smithson, seated in
“Photograph showing Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Alice and Peter Smithson, seated in an unidentified street.”This image shows Group 6, from the 1956 exhibition ‘This is Tomorrow’. You may recognise it from one of the posters featured in my previous post. All four members have links to Edward Wright (the designer mentioned previously) who taught at the Central School of Art at the same time as both Paolozzi and Henderson, and was hired by the Smithsons to design the lettering for their 1956 House of the Future. Which was their vision for the homes of tomorrow, exhibited at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition. All four members of Group 6 were also involved in the emerging genre of 'New Brutalism' (after béton brut — raw concrete) which was a term coined by critic and writer Reyner Banham in an Architectural Review article written the year before 'This is Tomorrow’. The similarities in both ideas and aesthetic between the architecture of the Smithsons, the paintings and sculptures of Paolozzi and the photography and collages of Henderson prove that there is more to Brutalism than just concrete buildings! As well as more to 'This is Tomorrow’ than just Pop Art…Top image © Tate. The Image below is an outtake from said photoshoot (via). -- source link
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