B3, A+PS

" In calling our collected works THE CHARGED VOID: ARCHITECTURE, we are thinking of architecture's capacity to charge the sapce around it with an energy which can join up with other energies, influence the nature of things that might come . . . a capacity we can feel and act upon, but cannot necessarily describe or record."

Peter Smithson, 1992

how close are they.

A+PS : golden lane

Man may readily identify himself with his own hearth, but not so easily within the town which he is placed. ‘Belonging’ is a basic emotional need – its associations are of the simplest order. From belonging and identity comes the enriching sense of neighbourliness. The short narrow street of the slum succeeds where the spacious redevelopment frequently fails.

Team 10 response to the CIAM 8 report 1951

(Modern architecture, a critical history p.271)