Abstract

CIAM, the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne, founded by a coalition of European architects in 1928, was an international forum for new ideas about the urban design of housing and cities in an emerging socialist context. Its most influential concepts were the Existenzminimum, the small family housing unit affordable on a minimum wage income and the focus on CIAM 2, 1929; the design of housing settlements of such units, the focus of CIAM 3, 1930; and the Functional City, the idea that entire cities should be designed or redesigned on this basis. This article briefly explains these ideas and considers some of their subsequent outcomes.

Details

Title
CIAM and Its Outcomes
Author
Mumford, Eric
Pages
291-298
Publication year
2019
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Cogitatio Press
e-ISSN
21837635
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2300258388
Copyright
© 2019. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.