This early history of Team 10 and the group's emergence from
CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architecture ) shifts the
locus of the group's importance from their better-known projects of
the 1960s and 70s to the group's more theoretically intense period
of the late 1940s and 50s. Extensive archival research reveals
another story of Team 10 thinking than the one's portrayed by CIAM
and Team 10 member Alison Smithson, which historians have been
echoing, in one way or another, ever since. Offered here is a
theoretical framework for understanding the new values that were
introduced to modern architecture in postwar CIAM and the common
ground that allowed this diverse group of architects and with
disparate approaches to be considered, "first and foremost,"
modern.
Essential reading for anyone interested in a deeper and nuanced
understanding of the theoretical context architects have been
practicing in since the 1950s, this account blurs the boundaries
between modernism and postmodernism, and reveals the important role
played by representation in establishing and changing ideologies,
institutions, and power structures.
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