ABSTRACT
The aim of such colossal structures was to meet the demands posed by complex social and functional interactions typical of cities in general, and the hill-town formation was seen as an archetype of this urban formation. During the 1950s he and Alison Smithson had distilled the urban concept of cluster city' from the continuity they perceived between streets and houses in traditional Greek villages and towns. Similar tendencies are evident in the 1960 town plan for Le MirailToulouse, France by Georges Candilis, Alexis Josic and Shadrach Woods. Besides employing the hill town as an urban design model, major architectural interest in the 1950s through 1970s focused on using the hill-town experience' to produce new habitat concepts within the smaller scale of the collective housing typology. Participants analyzed the hill towns of Urbino and Siena and developed proposals for their further development.
