Main entry:

Mumford, Eric Paul, 1958-

Title & Author:

The CIAM discourse on urbanism, 1928-1960 / Eric Mumford.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.

Description:

xv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-360) and index.
CIAM, 1928-1930 -- Modern Architects' Congress, 1929 -- VIAM 1, La Sarraz, Switzerland, 1928 -- La Sarraz Declaration -- CIAM 2, Frankfurt, 1929: The Existenzminimum -- Le Corbusier, the Green City, and His "Response to Moscow" -- CIAM 3, Brussels, 1930: Rational Lot Development -- The Functional City, 1931-1939 -- The Theme of the Functional City -- Application Case: Barcelona, 1932 -- CIAM 4, 1933: Functional City -- CIAM, 1933-1936 -- CIAM 5, Paris, 1937: Dwelling and Recreation -- Transplanting CIAM, 1: England, 1937-1942 -- Transplanting CIAM, 2: America and Europe, 1938-1939 -- CIAM and the Postwar World, 1939-1950 -- CIAM as Propaganda: Sert's Can Our Cities Survive? -- The New York CIAM Chapter for Relief and Postwar Planning, 1943-1945 -- The New Monumentality -- Le Corbusier and ASCORAL, 1940-1945 -- CIAM, 1946-1947 -- The New Empiricism -- CIAM 6, Bridgewater, England, 1947 -- CIAM 7, Bergamo, Italy, 1949 -- "Concerning Architectural Culture": Zevi's Critique of CIAM.
From the "Heart of the City" to the End of CIAM -- CIAM 8, Hoddesdon, England, 1951: The Heart of the City -- In Search of "Habitat": Sigtuna, Sweden, 1952 -- CIAM 9, Aix-en-Provence, 1953: The Charter of Habitat -- Team 10 and CIAM 10, Dubrovnik, 1956 -- CIAM '59 in Otterlo and the End of CIAM -- After CIAM.

Summary:

"CIAM (Congres Internationaux D'Architecture Moderne), founded in Switzerland in 1928, was an avant-garde association of architects intended to advance both modernism and internationalism in architecture."
"In this first book-length history of the organization, architectural historian Eric Mumford focuses on CIAM's discourse to trace the development and promotion of its influential concept of the "Functional City." He views official doctrines and pronouncements in relation to the changing circumstances of the members, revealing how CIAM in the 1930s began to resemble a kind of syndicalist party oriented toward winning over any suitable authority, regardless of political orientation.
Mumford also looks at CIAM's efforts after World War II to find a new basis for a socially engaged architecture and describes the attempts by the group of younger members called Team 10 to radically revise CIAM's mission in the 1950s, efforts that led to the organization's dissolution in 1959"--Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0262133644 (hc ; acid-free paper)
9780262133647 (hc ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

International Congresses for Modern Architecture.
Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
City planning History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Urbanisme Histoire 20e siècle.
City planning.
Architecten.
Verenigingen.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211835
Call No.: NA680.I4 M8 2000
Status: Available