Christopher Long

Christopher Long – Josef Frank, CIAM, and the Assault on the Unified Ideal 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.