1. The first gathering of the CIAM at La Sarraz, Switzerland, 1928.
Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne or Congresses for International Modern Architecture
1928-1959
2. CIAM “battle plan” drawn and exhibited by Le Corbusier for the meeting at La Sarraz, 1928
3. Cover of i10 containing the “Declaration of La Sarraz,”
1928
5. Advertisement on back of Das Neue Frankfurt 11 (November 1929), Examples of house types shown at the second
showing Stam’s Hellerhof settlement, Frankfurt, 1929 meeting of the CIAM in Frankfurt, 1929
7. CIAM 3, Brussels, 1930
Top left and right – Rationelle Bebauungsweisen
exhibition. Planning proposals for Abo Finland, by Alvar Walter Gropius, model of an eleven-story steel-
Alto and for Utrecht Holland, by Gerrit Reitveld framed slab apartment building with sixty small
units, from Rationelle Bebauungsweisen
Bottom – Book cover Rationelle Bebauungsweisen,
Stuttgart, 1931
8. Rationelle Bebauungsweisen exhibition. Herbert Boehm and Eugene Site plan with analytical comments from
Kaufmann’s studies of building costs for two- to twelve-story building types Rationelle Bebauungsweisen, 1930
9. Le Corbusier Le Corbusier
Cover of Des canons, des munitions? Merci ! ‘Aerial Warfare’
Des logis . . . S.V.P. 1938. Plate from La Ville Radieuse, 1935.
11. From the Architects in Uniform Exhibition at the
Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2011
12. Le Corbusier’s sketches made on board the SS
Le Corbusier speaking on the SS Patris ll, CIAM 4,
Patris ll – illustrating his theme of “air-sound-light”
1933
developed as a lecture
16. Le Corbusier From The Radiant
City, 1933.
“The highway network sketched out here will provide
facilities (complete, efficient, necessary and adequate) for
a city of one and a half million inhabitants. Each square of
the network in residential areas measures 400 by 400
meters.”
Le Corbusier – The Radiant City, 1933, 1964
24. Le Corbusier Proposal for Algiers
As re-published in Ville Radieuse; The
Radiant City
25. “Functional City” exhibition, Amsterdam, 1935, with Baltimore Functional City analytical plan, prepared by William
Muschenheim
26. Andre Lurcat, Karl-Marx School in
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and H. Breuillot, engineer, Villejuif, Paris, 1933
Functional City plan for Nemours, Morocco, 1935
27. Cover of proposed CIAM
volume presenting the
Cover of de 8 en Opbouw, a publication by the combined Dutch CIAM results of the Functional
groups, reporting the 1935 Functional City exhibition, Amsterdam City Congress, ca. 1938
28. Left – CIAM-France, diagram of production of proposed CIAM 4 volumes, ca. 1936
29. Le Corbusier and GATCPAC, Macia plan for Barcelona,
1932
F. Albini, I. Gardella, G. Minoletti, G. Pagano, G.
Palanti, G. Predaval, G. Romano, “Milano
Verde” (Green Milan) plan, 1937
30. Four modern housing types: Beaudoin’s and Lod’s Cite
de la Muette, Arne Jacobson’s Bellavista Flats, and
Storonov and Kastner’s Carl Mackley Houses; from Sert,
Can Our Cities Survive?
31. Original cover design by Herbert Bayer for Sert,
Should Our Cities Survive?, ca. 1941.
Industrial areas, means of communication, and the
central city (New York), with Van tijen and
Maaskant, Plaslaan Flats, Rotterdam, 1937-38;
From Sert, Can Our Cities Survive?
32. Gropius and Fry, proposed slab blocks with 110 units for St. Leonard’s Hill,
Windsor, England, 1937.
46. Sven Backstrom, Lief Reinius,
Rosta Housing Estate, 1946,
Orebro Sweden
Mario Fiorention, San Basilco, Rome c. 1954
47. Alison and Peter Smithson, “Urban Reidentification” grid from CIAM 9, 1953. Aix-en-Provenance.
Revision and challenge to Le Corbusier’s CIAM Grille
48. Alison and Peter Smithson, Panel from “Urban Reidentification” grid,
Nigel Henderson’s photographs of Bethnal Green, East “London Street, decorated with flags and text,” from CIAM 9, 1953.
End, London Aix-en-Provenance.
50. Alison and Peter Smithson, panel from “Urban
Reidentification” grid, aerial perspective sketch of
Golden Lane competition project, 1952
Top – Street equivalents, deck housing, Peter Smithson, 1953
Bottom – “Nehru dumping a load of hay over a balcony.” collage, Alison
Smithson, 1952
52. Peter Smithson explaining Denis Lasdun’s scheme (representing MARS
Group) and Jaap Bakema ready to translate. Jacqueline Tyrwhitt with
back to camera. Dubrovnik, 1956
The Doorn Manifesto, February 1954. Doorn Holland. Team X
53. Belgiojoso, Peressutti, and Rogers, Plans for Moroccan housing showing the staggered patio
(BPR) Grid panel from CIAM 9, 1953, stacking system, ATBATA Afrique, 1951-52
showing two-story row-houses at
Cesate, Milan
54. Dubrovnik scroll.
Taken by Alison
and Peter
Smithson as
meter long gifts,
printed on airmail
dyeline
Alison and Peter Smithson, sketch of “scales of association: from
Geddes’s Valley Section,
from “Draft Framework 3” guidelines for CIAM 10, 1956. Dubrovnik.
55. Aldo Van Eyck, Grid panel from “Lost Identity” grid, “the playground and extension of the doorstep,” from CIAM 10,
Dubrovnik 1956.
56. Route building serving office towers, Peter Smithson, 1959
Drawing from The Team X Primer
57. From the Team X Primer
Drawing from the Team X Primer, 1969. Sketches from the TEAM X Primer
58. Arctic City, Ralph Erskine. Sweden. Ralph Erskine, Living with the climate diagram, Sweden.
60. Diagrams
from
the Appreciated unit, Street mesh in the air, basic
TEAM X Alison and Peter Smithson diagram, Peter Smithson, 1951
Primer
61. “At some point must be a place of maximum
intensity.” Louis Kahn
Philadelphia study, Louis Kahn,
Wound up parking towers and a poem
Right – “The architect can control systems of physical
communication and offer new concepts.” Louis Kahn
66. Bakema & Van de Broek, The Lijnbaan, Bakema & Van de Broek, The Lijnbahn, 1954. “The architecture must
Rotterdam, stand between the client’s ego and society.”
67. John Voelcker, House at Arkley, Staplehurst, England, presented at CIAM ’59, Otterlo.
