Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937-69

by Eric Mumford

In this meticulously researched book, Eric Mumford traces how members of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), such as Walter Gropius, Josep Llu s Sert, and their American associates, developed the discipline of urban design from the 1940s to the 1960s. Now widely known, this field has had significant influence in university departments and building projects around the world, but its roots in the urbanism of CIAM are not well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300138881
• ISBN13: 9780300138887
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 10.2"