Team 10
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Team 10 – just as often referred to as Team X or Team Ten – was a group of architects and other invited participants who assembled starting in July 1953 at the 9th Congress of the International Congre
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.
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
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Blanche Lemco van Ginkel was a British-born Canadian architect, city planner, and educator who worked mostly in Montreal and Toronto. She is known for her Modernist designs, as well as for planning Ex
In one of her earliest projects, van Ginkel worked on the rooftop of le Corbusier's iconic Unité d'Habitation in Marseille. She would later write, "I designed the children's play area and the high parapet around the running track/edge of the roof. The idea was that the roof was like the square of a small town, with its usual facilities, and that one saw the Alpes Maritimes in the distance as one would over the house roofs. This is why the parapet is relatively high."
Bowring Park, St. John's, Newfoundland