Upper Lawn, Solar Pavilion - Alison & Peter Smithson history Grand Wizzard Theodore

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while her life charted a rebellious course across three continents—from a childhood in 1930s South Africa to her education in 1950s England to teaching and practice in the United States

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Upper Lawn, Solar Pavilion - Alison & Peter Smithson history Grand Wizzard TheodoreIn 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