Edited by Alison Smithson

From the emergence of Team 10 in 1953 until her death in 1993, Alison Smithson was chief editor of the group's activities. ¹ She produced these documents as an eye witness to events. Unlike the historian (Peter) Reyner Banham whose history of Brutalist architecture, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic? ² the Smithsons criticised because Banham did not include 'a kind of [ ... ] locked-in knowledge of the roles that people actually played rather than the roles they appeared to play', ³ Alison Smithson's histories of Team 10 were written as an insider. This was because she was co-founder and active architect-member, designing and debating at group meetings for as long as Team 10 existed. This might suggest that Alison Smithson's Team 10 records are precise accounts of the group's activities.