As in DS: An Eye on the Road
Smithson, Alison
Delft. Delft University Press. 1983
Alison Smithson's scarce, iconic road book / journal.
This book by British architect Alison Smithson is the result of observing the landscape on journeys from London to Wiltshire driving a Citroen DS. The documentation is provided through text written on the trips, together with drawings, and photographs. The shape of the book is cut into the profile of a DS car.
'In this diary – a passenger's eye on english roads in the 1970's – a sensibility to car movement has its beginnings.' (From the rear wrapper).
'To the eighteenth century's inherited consciousness of nature and landscape Jane Austen's novels added her generation's perception of distance and time; a response to the news of movement of ships and armies in the Napoleonic Wars and, within England, to the ease of communication on trunk roads.' (From the initial leaf).
With the library stamp of architect Franc Dixon.
Some toning to the spine.
This book by British architect Alison Smithson is the result of observing the landscape on journeys from London to Wiltshire driving a Citroen DS. The documentation is provided through text written on the trips, together with drawings, and photographs. The shape of the book is cut into the profile of a DS car.
'In this diary – a passenger's eye on english roads in the 1970's – a sensibility to car movement has its beginnings.' (From the rear wrapper).
'To the eighteenth century's inherited consciousness of nature and landscape Jane Austen's novels added her generation's perception of distance and time; a response to the news of movement of ships and armies in the Napoleonic Wars and, within England, to the ease of communication on trunk roads.' (From the initial leaf).
With the library stamp of architect Franc Dixon.
Some toning to the spine.
pp. 164. Tall 8vo. (c.285 x 110 mm). Illustrated throughout in black and white. Original publisher's blue printed citroen-shaped wrappers with titles and illustration in white to covers and spine.
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