Maurice K Smith

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Maurice Smith (September 1926, Hamilton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand architect and educator. Smith's work builds upon the idea of creating "habitable three-dimensional fields" as a working method for his projects. His 'field theory' has close associations to the work of Charles Olson, William Carlos Williams, and Francis Ponge in poetry, and of Gyorgy Kepes and Paul Klee in the visual arts. Smith's published works include the Offices of Firth Concrete, Hastings, New Zealand (with Len Hoogerbrug, 1958) and the Blackman House in Groton, Massachusetts (1962-63). He left New Zealand to study at MIT in the USA and returned on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1952. He taught from 1958 to 1996 at the School of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Architecture at MIT and lives in Harvard, Massachusetts.

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