Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne

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Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne was an influential 20th-century international organization of modernist architects that shaped and promoted the principles of modern architecture and urbanism worldwide.


Statements (56)
Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural organization
international organization
modernist movement organization
professional association of architects
aim to coordinate international modernist architects
to develop principles of functionalist urbanism
to promote modern architecture
countryOfOrigin Switzerland
dissolutionCause internal disagreements over direction of modernism
dissolved 1959
fieldOfWork architectural theory
city planning
modern architecture
urban planning
urbanism
foundingEvent La Sarraz Congress
hasMember Alison Smithson
Cornelis van Eesteren
Ernst May
Hannes Meyer
Josep Lluís Sert
Le Corbusier
Peter Smithson
Sigfried Giedion
Walter Gropius
hasPart CIAM congresses
national CIAM groups
headquartersLocation La Sarraz, Switzerland
inception 1928
influenced development of the International Style
postwar urban planning in Europe
public housing policies in the mid-20th century
influencedBy Bauhaus
European avant-garde movements
legacy inspired formation of Team 10
shaped discourse on modernist urbanism worldwide
locationOfFormation La Sarraz, Switzerland
movement International Style
Modernism
nativeLabel Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne
nativeLanguage French
notableIdea functional city
high-density high-rise housing in open green space
separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic
zoning of urban functions
notableMeeting CIAM I, La Sarraz 1928
CIAM IV, Athens 1933
CIAM IX, Aix-en-Provence 1953
CIAM VIII, Hoddesdon 1951
CIAM X, Dubrovnik 1956
notableWork Athens Charter
organizes debates on urbanism
international architecture congresses
shortName CIAM
significantText Athens Charter on functional city planning
CIAM declarations on modern architecture


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