Alison and Peter Smithson, pictured in front of a photograph of Hunstanton Schoool

Hunstanton Secondary School was the Smithsons' first competition win, launching them to architectural stardom. Although something of an ode to Mies van der Rohe, with its sleek steel frames and glass walls, the pared-down style of Hunstanton embodied Alison Smithson’s recently coined term, New Brutalism; "an ethic, not an aesthetic" in which truth to materials was key.