The document summarizes the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), an influential organization of modernist architects that held regular meetings between 1928 and 1959 to discuss urban planning issues. It provides images from CIAM meetings and publications that illustrate key concepts in modernist urban planning from the 1920s-1950s such as superblocks, towers in a park, and the separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The document also features works from notable modernist architects like Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Team X who were involved with CIAM and helped develop the urban renewal ideas and "Radiant City" plans that were debated at their conferences.

1. The first gathering of the CIAM at La Sarraz, Switzerland, 1928.
Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne or Congresses for International Modern Architecture
1928-1959

2. CIAM “battle plan” drawn and exhibited by Le Corbusier for the meeting at La Sarraz, 1928

3. Cover of i10 containing the “Declaration of La Sarraz,”
1928

4. Le Corbusier’s La Ville Radieuse or The Radiant City, 1925

5. Advertisement on back of Das Neue Frankfurt 11 (November 1929), Examples of house types shown at the second
showing Stam’s Hellerhof settlement, Frankfurt, 1929 meeting of the CIAM in Frankfurt, 1929

6. Group photograph, CIAM 3, Brussels, 1930

7. CIAM 3, Brussels, 1930
Top left and right – Rationelle Bebauungsweisen
exhibition. Planning proposals for Abo Finland, by Alvar Walter Gropius, model of an eleven-story steel-
Alto and for Utrecht Holland, by Gerrit Reitveld framed slab apartment building with sixty small
units, from Rationelle Bebauungsweisen
Bottom – Book cover Rationelle Bebauungsweisen,
Stuttgart, 1931

8. Rationelle Bebauungsweisen exhibition. Herbert Boehm and Eugene Site plan with analytical comments from
Kaufmann’s studies of building costs for two- to twelve-story building types Rationelle Bebauungsweisen, 1930

9. Le Corbusier Le Corbusier
Cover of Des canons, des munitions? Merci ! ‘Aerial Warfare’
Des logis . . . S.V.P. 1938. Plate from La Ville Radieuse, 1935.

10. Le Corbusier
‘What about Air War?”
In La Ville Radieuse, 1935

11. From the Architects in Uniform Exhibition at the
Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2011

12. Le Corbusier’s sketches made on board the SS
Le Corbusier speaking on the SS Patris ll, CIAM 4,
Patris ll – illustrating his theme of “air-sound-light”
1933
developed as a lecture

15. “Organisms…Perfect entities…a function, a
form..” Le Corbusier, The Radiant City

16. Le Corbusier From The Radiant
City, 1933.
“The highway network sketched out here will provide
facilities (complete, efficient, necessary and adequate) for
a city of one and a half million inhabitants. Each square of
the network in residential areas measures 400 by 400
meters.”
Le Corbusier – The Radiant City, 1933, 1964

17. Le Corbusier, The Radiant City

18. Le Corbusier, The Radiant City
The Green City
The Redents

19. Le Corbusier, From The Radiant City; Ville Radieuse

20. Le Corbusier, SYNTHESIS:THE
RADIANT CITY,

21. Le Corbusier, From The Radient City

23. Proposal for Rio de Janiero, 1929

24. Le Corbusier Proposal for Algiers
As re-published in Ville Radieuse; The
Radiant City

25. “Functional City” exhibition, Amsterdam, 1935, with Baltimore Functional City analytical plan, prepared by William
Muschenheim

26. Andre Lurcat, Karl-Marx School in
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and H. Breuillot, engineer, Villejuif, Paris, 1933
Functional City plan for Nemours, Morocco, 1935

27. Cover of proposed CIAM
volume presenting the
Cover of de 8 en Opbouw, a publication by the combined Dutch CIAM results of the Functional
groups, reporting the 1935 Functional City exhibition, Amsterdam City Congress, ca. 1938

28. Left – CIAM-France, diagram of production of proposed CIAM 4 volumes, ca. 1936

29. Le Corbusier and GATCPAC, Macia plan for Barcelona,
1932
F. Albini, I. Gardella, G. Minoletti, G. Pagano, G.
Palanti, G. Predaval, G. Romano, “Milano
Verde” (Green Milan) plan, 1937

30. Four modern housing types: Beaudoin’s and Lod’s Cite
de la Muette, Arne Jacobson’s Bellavista Flats, and
Storonov and Kastner’s Carl Mackley Houses; from Sert,
Can Our Cities Survive?

31. Original cover design by Herbert Bayer for Sert,
Should Our Cities Survive?, ca. 1941.
Industrial areas, means of communication, and the
central city (New York), with Van tijen and
Maaskant, Plaslaan Flats, Rotterdam, 1937-38;
From Sert, Can Our Cities Survive?

32. Gropius and Fry, proposed slab blocks with 110 units for St. Leonard’s Hill,
Windsor, England, 1937.

33. Zurich CIRPAC meeting, July 1939

34. CIAM 6 Bridgwater, England
Sert and Wiener, center for Cidade dos Motores, Brazil, ca. 1944.

35. CIAM 7, 1949. Bergamo, Italy
Tecton (subsequently Drake and Lasdun) housing,
Paddington.

36. CIAM 8. Hoddeson, England
Theme: The Core: The Heart of the City. Walter Gropius
Harvard College Yard, Cambridge

37. Below– Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Below – Piazza Vittorio Emanuele,
Florence

38. Project for a new city neighbourhood – CIAM Group OPBOUW
(Rotterdam, Holland)

39. Project for a new town centre – Le Corbusier
(St. Die, France)

40. A new satellite town – CIAM Group of Morocco (Rabat Sale, Morocco)

41. A new centre for a bombed city – D.E.E. Gibson et al (Coventry, England)

42. A new recreational centre –K. Tange et al (Hiroshima, Japan)

43. Le Corbusier A replanned government centre, Bogata, Columbia)

44. MARS Grid for CIAM 8; from CIAM 8: Heart of the City (1952)

45. Advertisement for Sigfried Giedion’s, A Decade of New Architecture, 1952

46. Sven Backstrom, Lief Reinius,
Rosta Housing Estate, 1946,
Orebro Sweden
Mario Fiorention, San Basilco, Rome c. 1954

47. Alison and Peter Smithson, “Urban Reidentification” grid from CIAM 9, 1953. Aix-en-Provenance.
Revision and challenge to Le Corbusier’s CIAM Grille

48. Alison and Peter Smithson, Panel from “Urban Reidentification” grid,
Nigel Henderson’s photographs of Bethnal Green, East “London Street, decorated with flags and text,” from CIAM 9, 1953.
End, London Aix-en-Provenance.

49. Photographs of Bethnal Green, London’s East End,
Nigel Henderson

50. Alison and Peter Smithson, panel from “Urban
Reidentification” grid, aerial perspective sketch of
Golden Lane competition project, 1952
Top – Street equivalents, deck housing, Peter Smithson, 1953
Bottom – “Nehru dumping a load of hay over a balcony.” collage, Alison
Smithson, 1952

51. Smithsons, 1952
Golden Lane, 1952. Section with partial elevation.
P. Smithson

52. Peter Smithson explaining Denis Lasdun’s scheme (representing MARS
Group) and Jaap Bakema ready to translate. Jacqueline Tyrwhitt with
back to camera. Dubrovnik, 1956
The Doorn Manifesto, February 1954. Doorn Holland. Team X

53. Belgiojoso, Peressutti, and Rogers, Plans for Moroccan housing showing the staggered patio
(BPR) Grid panel from CIAM 9, 1953, stacking system, ATBATA Afrique, 1951-52
showing two-story row-houses at
Cesate, Milan

54. Dubrovnik scroll.
Taken by Alison
and Peter
Smithson as
meter long gifts,
printed on airmail
dyeline
Alison and Peter Smithson, sketch of “scales of association: from
Geddes’s Valley Section,
from “Draft Framework 3” guidelines for CIAM 10, 1956. Dubrovnik.

55. Aldo Van Eyck, Grid panel from “Lost Identity” grid, “the playground and extension of the doorstep,” from CIAM 10,
Dubrovnik 1956.

56. Route building serving office towers, Peter Smithson, 1959
Drawing from The Team X Primer

57. From the Team X Primer
Drawing from the Team X Primer, 1969. Sketches from the TEAM X Primer

58. Arctic City, Ralph Erskine. Sweden. Ralph Erskine, Living with the climate diagram, Sweden.

59. Ralph Erksine
Above - sketch of Tibro, Sweden
Right – Cambridge proposals

60. Diagrams
from
the Appreciated unit, Street mesh in the air, basic
TEAM X Alison and Peter Smithson diagram, Peter Smithson, 1951
Primer

61. “At some point must be a place of maximum
intensity.” Louis Kahn
Philadelphia study, Louis Kahn,
Wound up parking towers and a poem
Right – “The architect can control systems of physical
communication and offer new concepts.” Louis Kahn

62. Sketches from the TEAM X Primer
Diagram, Aldo van Eyck

63. Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, low- and high-rise housing, Brasilia.

64. Opbouw (Lotte Stam-Beese, Jacob Bakema, et al.), Pendrecht district,
Rotterdam, 1949-53.

65. Jaap Bakema, Diagrams, 1961

66. Bakema & Van de Broek, The Lijnbaan, Bakema & Van de Broek, The Lijnbahn, 1954. “The architecture must
Rotterdam, stand between the client’s ego and society.”

67. John Voelcker, House at Arkley, Staplehurst, England, presented at CIAM ’59, Otterlo.

68. Atlier 5, Siedlung, Berne, 1961
Atelier 5, Siedlung Halen, Bern Switzerland, (1955-1961)

69. Berlin Free University, Model
Berlin Free University, Candilis, Josic, Woods, 1964. of the University viewed from
the south, Shadrach Woods,
1964

70. Courtyard and elevation, Berlin Free University