Upper Lawn, Solar Pavilion - Alison & Peter Smithson plants Noora Ainasoja

Noora Ainasoja

It examines the artistic process through which Wurm created many of his major works and series

With hands-on treatment from the artist herself from layout to design

Glenn Ligon

On 300 pages he shares his impressions

Upper Lawn, Solar Pavilion - Alison & Peter Smithson plants Noora AinasojaIn 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