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5 unusual facts about Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne


CIAM

Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne, the International Congress of Modern Architecture

Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne

Instead it was held onboard ship, the SS Patris II, which sailed from Marseille to Athens.

Ferdinand Kramer

From 1925 through 1930 Kramer worked for architect and civic planner Ernst May building and furnishing the housing projects of New Frankfurt, and was a contributor to the second CIAM conference.

François de Pierrefeu

François de Pierrefeu (3 March 1891 - 1959) was a French engineer and urban planner who was one of the founders of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM).

Karel Teige

Although not an architect, Teige was an articulate and knowledgeable architecture critic, an active participant in CIAM, and friends with Hannes Meyer, the second director of the Bauhaus.


Charlotte Perriand

1930 Travels to Moscow for a Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) conference and designs fixtures for the Pavilion Suisse at the Cité Universitaire in Paris.

Ignazio Gardella

In the same years he was a leader of important cultural events, like CIAM (in '52 he founded, with others, the summer session in Venice; in '59 he participated in CIAM X in Otterlo in Holland), or the first INU conferences (starting in 1949).

Rex Distin Martienssen

Rex Distin Martienssen, ARIBA, CIAM, 26 February 1905 Queenstown - 23 August 1942 Pretoria, was a South African architect who was greatly influenced by Le Corbusier and spearheaded a modernist architectural movement in South Africa.


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