The Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne, or International Congresses of Modern Architecture, was an organization founded in 1928 and disbanded in 1959, responsible for a series of events and
Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart 1927. CIAM promoted modern architecture in the "Cubist style": the Bauhaus, Weissenhof, De Stijl, and modern projects of the Palace of Nations in Geneva. Parallel movements of the 1920s include Expressionism, Constructivism, Art Deco, and Traditionalism.
Otterlo Meeting 1959 (also CIAM '59), organized by Team 10, 43 participants. Meeting place: Kröller-Müller Museum, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park. Dissolution of the organization CIAM.
Le Corbusier
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architectur
Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne
…of Modern Architecture (CIAM) was founded in June 1928, at the Chateau de la Sarraz in Switzerland, by a group of 28 European architects organized by Le Corbusier, Hélène de Mandrot (owner of the castle), and Sigfried Giedion, (the first secretary-general). CIAM was one of many 20th-century manifestos meant to…
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), 1920, Nature morte (Still Life), oil on canvas, 80.9 cm × 99.7 cm (31.9 in × 39.3 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Le Corbusier's student project, the Villa Fallet, a chalet in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (1905)
The "Maison Blanche", built for Le Corbusier's parents in La Chaux-de-Fonds (1912)