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- Josef Frank, CIAM, and the Assault on the Unified Ideal
- Abstract
- Viennese architect Josef Frank maintained a very charged relation with the Congrés Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM). As one of the participants to the initial meeting of La Sarraz in 1928, Frank opposed CIAM’s dream to construct a pure, unified and systematised vision of modernism. Christopher Long argues that this critique would become decisive for Frank’s alternative definition of modern architecture that critically distanced itself from the pathos – a new romanticism of form and machine – that was characteristic of architecture and design in the 1920s.
- Citation
- Long, C. (2016). Josef Frank, CIAM, and the Assault on the Unified Ideal. Action and Reaction in Architecture , OASE, (97), 53–60. Retrieved from https://oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/97/JosefFrankCIAMandtheAssaultontheunifiedIdeal
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