Urban Housing

The history of C .I .A .M . as an organization and its particular influence on urban housing strategies in the 20th century

Formation and Membership

The history of modern architecture is incomplete without the history of CIAM . However , there is much irony in the in the fate C .I .A .M in the hands of history of Modern Architecture . C .I .A .M is the acronym for Congres Internationaux d 'Architecture Moderme , with English translation of International Congresses of Modern Architecture . The above claim is justified by the fact that , despite the

contributions of C .I .A .M in modern Architecture , the organization has received relatively low popularity among historian . CIAM is a self named organization with a goal of sustaining a drive for modern Architecture . The there major founders of C .I .A .M are Sigfried Giedon , Le Corbusier , and , Helene de Mandrot , while several member later joined the team . The name C .I .A .M serves a dual purpose , being the name given to the organization itself and yet the congresses held by the organization . Without mincing words this organization can be referred to as one of the pioneers of futuristic ideas in town planning and modern architecture . It brought in radical ideas that generated a lot of arguments in its early days Between in 1930 to early 1955 , CIAM embraced unique style of strict and practical zoning , choosing a single pattern of urban housing , a view contrary to some other architectural organization , such as the `international Style . It is believed that the reason for the neglect experienced by C .I .A .M was simply because of its inability to establish itself in shores of America during Post War (World War II . CIAM was not alone in this neglect , International Style too can be said to have shared same fate . In actual fact , CIAM was a part of the approach to architectural and urbanism of Le Corbusier (1887-1965 , which gave birth to The International Style after the Museum of Modern Art exhibition of 1932 ( Eric Paul ,1928-1960

Founded in June 1928 , at the Chateau de la Sarraz in Switzerland , by a peer of 28 European architects , CIAM has the following founding members Le Corbusier , Hyline de Mandrot , who owned the Chateau and Sigfried Giedion , its first secretary-general . The sole goal of the organization was to advance the cause of "architecture as a social art in the 20th century . Other founder members are Karl Moser , who was its first president , Victor Bourgeois , Pierre Chareau , Josef Frank , Gabriel Guevrekian , Max Ernst Haefeli , Hugo Hdring , Arnold Htzchel , Huib Hoste Pierre Jeanneret ( Le Corbusier ' cousin , Andry Lurzat , Ernst May Fernando Garcna Mercadal , Hannes Meyer , Werner Max Moser , Carlo Enrico Rava , Gerrit Rietveld , Alberto Sartoris , Hans Schmidt , Mart Stam , Rudolf Steiger , Henri-Robert Von der M 'hll , and Juan de Zavala

The representatives of Soviet Union include El Lissitzky , Nikolai Kolli and Moisei Ginzburg , Even though at the Sarraz conference , these delegates were unable to attend due to their inability obtain visas

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