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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon SMITHSON, Alison Born: 1928 06 22 Died: 1993 08 16 Architect English architects Alison Smithson (22 June 1928 – 16 August 1993) and Peter Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) together formed an architectural partnership, and are often associated with the New Brutalism (esp in architectural and urban theory). Alison was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. She met Peter while studying architecture at Durham University and they married in 1949. Together, they joined the architecture department of the London County Council before establishing their own partnership in 1950. [Wikipedia]