About a year later, in January 1955, the Smithsons would offer their second published remarks on the New Brutalism discourse. The writing was probably a response to Philip Johnson’s review of the Hunstanton School that was published in the AR a few months earlier. This time the article took the place of the magazine’s frontal page, under the guise of an Editor’s Note. It was only at the end of the first paragraph that Crosby explained the article, representing the position of the magazine, was developed from a conversation with the Smithsons couple. Crosby wrote the introduction and the closing paragraph, bracketing seven short remarks given by the Smithson as “a definition or statement” on New Brutalism.
The article began with a polemic
The article began with a polemic