The functional city : the CIAM and Cornelis van Eesteren, 1928-1960 / Kees Somer ; [editor: Ed Taverne ; translation, Peter Mason].
By: Somer, Kees
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Contributor(s): Taverne, Ed | Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Stichting | Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum.
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BookPublisher: Rotterdam : Hague : New York : NAi Publishers ; EFL Foundation ; D.A.P. [distributor], c2007Description: 271 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. ; 30 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 9789056625764; 9056625764.Subject(s): Eesteren, Cornelis van, 1897-1988 | International Congress for Modern Architecture | City planning -- History -- 20th century | City planning -- Netherlands -- Exhibitions | Architecture -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century | Architecture -- Netherlands -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 711.4
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Dutch architect and planner Cornelis van Eesteren served as president of CIAM, the Congr s International d'Architecture Moderne, from 1930 to 1947. His tenure there was steady and influential, but has been little studied, as the rise of Team 10 and then CIAM itself as a global force in the 1950s have obscured the organization's roots as a cooperative that was first embraced by its Dutch and Swiss members. The city analyses that CIAM members conducted for their 1933 congress, chaired by van Eesteren, made an important contribution to what they called "comparative town planning." The Functional City focuses on that legendary fourth congress, held in the summer of 1933; examines van Esteren's legacy; and traces CIAM's early evolution through an abundance of little-known archival material. The leitmotif in this narrative is the principle of collectivity: the avant-garde ideal of concerted action as the basis for the creation of a thoroughly contemporary human habitat.
The International Congresses of Modern Architecture, better known under the French name Congráes internationaux d\'architecture moderne (CIAM), were presenting the results of their congress held two years earlier on \'The Functional City\' ... [the exhibition with the Dutch title \'De Functionele Stad\' took place] on 1 June 1935 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.--P. 7.
Bibliography: p. 258-264. - Includes index.
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