Collage y arquitectura: la interferencia pop en la primera obra de Alison y Peter Smithson

This article seeks to direct our attention to one of the countless interferences that, throughout the twentieth century, intertwined the path of art with that of architecture. A perspective born from the cultural and political expansionism promoted by the United States during the postwar years, which would eventually lead to the birth of the Independent Group and, with it, to a new way of looking at our discipline through consumption and pop. As a result of these interferences, this article values the significance of the collection of projects launched with the 1953 exhibition Parallel of Life and Art and concluded with the design of the Appliance Houses between 1956-1959. These projects positioned British architects Alison and Peter Smithson as two of the main representatives of a way of understanding architectural space through objects and collage.