Without Rhetoric collects the legacy of twenty years of research by the British architect couple Alison & Peter Smithson in order to offer the reader a direct and unapologetic idea of their interests and obsessions: the new brutalism, British pop culture and the current state of architecture. the role of advertising and the media in architecture, his fascination with the work of MIES van der Rohe, the use of repetition or las Greek and Japanese architecture.