Cold-War conciliation: International architectural congresses in the late 1950s and early 1960s

Journal of Architecture

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 197-217

  Glendinning, Miles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 73649084800     PISSN: 13602365     EISSN: 14664410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13602360802704869     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. See, for instance, Constructed Happiness: The Domestic Environment in the Cold War Era (Estonian Academy of Arts, May, 2004)
2. R. Stegers, ed., Glueck Stadt Raum in Europa 1945 bis 2002 (Basel, 2002)
3. R. Bromley, 'Towards Global Settlements: Constantinos Doxiadis as Entrepreneur, Coalition-Builder and Visionary', in, J. Nasr, M. Volait, eds, Urbanism Imported or Exported (Chichester, 2003), pp. 316-340
4. E. Mumford, The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (Cambridge, Mass., 2000), p. 194 ('The Bauhaus is as far behind us as Scamozzi')
5. P. Vago, Pierre Vago, Une Vie Intense (Bruxelles, 2000)
6. J. Roguska, Helena i Szymon Syrkusowie (Warszawa, 2000), p. 114
7. IFHTP: EULMC, file MS2555, notes of executive committee meeting of 20th-30th May, 1954. The July, 1955, UIA conference at The Hague furthered this broad collaboration with IFHTP, by taking housing as its theme: EULMC file MS2533, letter from J. Macaulay, Congress Secretary, to RHM, 23rd April, 1954, and of 24th September, 1954 from RHM to T. van der Weijde. See also S. Goldhagen and R. Legault, Anxious Modernisms (Montreal, 2000), 55
8. E. Mumford, The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism (Cambridge MA, 2000), pp. 192-5. EULMC, file MS2555, letter of 16th December, 1956, from Abercrombie to RHM. Tension with IFHTP: EULMC, letter of 1st November, 1956, from R. Gardner-Medwin to RHM, and of 12th December, 1956, from RHM to Abercrombie
9. As early as 1954, Khrushchev had urged the All-Union Conference of Builders and Architects to an 'all-out drive' for standardised mass production. On the influence of the 1958 UIA Congress in legitimising mikrorayon planning see: Triin Ojari, 'Floor space: the Modernist residential housing ideology and Mustamäe', Studies in Art and Architecture, Tallinn (2004/2), pp. 66-70
10. V. O. Vinograd and others, eds, 5th Congress of the UIA (Moscow, State Building Architecture and Design Literature Press, 1960)
11. L. Tonev, 'Moscou 1958', L'UIA, 99
12. F. Dufaux and A. Fourcat, Le monde des grands ensembles (Paris, 2004)
13. DOCOMOMO Journal 39, Postwar Mass Housing (2008), pp.18-22
14. EULMC, file MS2551, general correspondence for the 1961 Congress; 18th January, 1960, draft of exhibition proposal; letter from RHM to Vago, 6th January, 1960; letter from Crosby to Percy Johnson-Marshall, 6th January, 1960; T. Crosby, Architecture - City Sense (London, 1965)
15. D. Sharp, 'London 1961', in L'UIA, p. 110
16. R. P. Andrew, A. E. Brooks, eds, Final Report of the 6th Congress of the International Union of Architects, London, 3-7 July 1961 (London, October, 1962)
17. J. M. Richards, Memoirs of an Unjust Fella (London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1980), pp. 205-6
18. Builder, 7th July, 1961, pp. 3-4
19. UIA Revue, 10 (October, 1961)
20. JRIBA (June, 1961), pp. 286-293
21. EULMC, file MS2533, general correspondence of 1959-60; EULMC, file MS2553, UIA December, 1959, document on low-cost housing; note of 19th May, 1960, from E. Weissman to H. Churchill; Churchill to Vago, 24th October, 1961, and Vago to RHM, 7th November, 1961. Vago attacks on Weissmann's lack of support for UIA and lack of UIA-UN coordination: EULMC, file MS2533, letter of 1st February, 1966, from Vago to RHM. Corbusier at Bergamo: Mumford, The CIAM Discourse, op. cit., p. 192
22. L. Fasolo, An Insider's Guide to the UN (New Haven, 2002)
23. The UN's Bureau of Social Affairs was headed in the early 1960s by Dr John Henderson. 'Political' oversight of 'ECOSOC' prior to 1963 was confined to the housing committees of the UN regional commissions, but from 1963 a standing committee of 'ECOSOC' was set up, the UIA's representative being Baranov of the USSR. (EULMC, file MS2553, report on 5-16th September, 1966, session by N. M. Woodhouse). E. Mumford, The CIAM Discourse, op. cit., pp. 200, 128. EULMC, file MS2533, letter of 1st February, 1966, from Vago to RHM
24. AIA Journal (March, 1964), p. 28
25. E. Rodriguez, 'Theory and Practice of Modern Regionalism in Cuba', Docomomo Journal (September, 2005), p. 33
26. R. Gott, Cuba, a New History (New Haven, 2004)
27. R. Segre, Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Revolucão Cubana (São Paolo, 1987)
28. J. M. Austin-Smith, 'Havana 1963', L'UIA, p.115
29. The competition entries awarded joint second prize were Brazilian and Bulgarian, and the third was from the USSR: R. Estevez Curbelo, ed., Arquitectura Cuba, special number (1963), pp. 55-64
30. Leycester Coltman, The Real Fidel Castro (New Haven, 2002)
31. Arquitectura Cuba (January-March, 1964)
32. New Cuba (Summer, 1964)
33. AD (September, 1963)
34. AJ (9th and 23rd October, 1963)
35. Builder (November, 1963)
36. Guardian (7th November, 1963)
37. ABN (25th December, 1963)
38. JRIBA (December, 1963; February and March, 1964
39. Architectural Review (October, 1963)
40. AA Journal 9 (March, 1964)
41. Constantinos Doxiadis was awarded the UIA Abercrombie prize for planning (newly instituted in 1961). The final resolutions called uncontentiously for more coordinated planning, for help to underdeveloped countries by the developed, for public ownership of land and for industrialised building (whether or not through public ownership of the means of production): UIA Cuba, Seventh Congress of the UIA, Architecture in Countries in the process of Development (Havana, Cuba, September, 1963)
42. Post-Cuba stabilisation: EULMC, papers of the UIA Executive Council, Budapest, 27th May, 1964. Prague conference: EULMC, file MS2549; Architektura CSSR (September/October, 1966), pp. 677-685
43. Architectural Review (December, 2007)
44. Habitat 1976 conference: M. Glendinning, Modern Architect (London, RIBA, 2008), Chapter 13