a brief (!) info

Before we start, I find it beneficial to give a background information about each of the groups.

C. I. A. M. (1928 - 1956)

André Lurçat est avec Le Corbusier l’un des deux grands théoriciens du mouvement moderne.

founded at the Chateau de la Sarraz in Switzerland, by a group of 28 European architects organized by Le Corbusier, Hélène de Mandrot (owner of the castle), and Sigfried Giedion (the first secretary-general).

other founders: Karl Moser, Hendrik Berlage, Victor Bourgeois, Pierre Chareau, Sven Markelius, Josef Frank, Gabriel Guevrekian, Max Ernst Haefeli, Hugo Häring, Arnold Höchel, Huib Hoste, Pierre Jeanneret, André Lurçat, Ernst May, Fernando García Mercadal, Hannes Meyer, Werner M. Moser, Carlo Enrico Rava, Gerrit Rietveld, Alberto Sartoris, Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, Rudolf Steiger, Szymon Syrkus, Henri-Robert Von der Mühll, Juan de Zavala.

USSR delegates: El Lissitzky, Nikolai Kolli, Moisei Ginzburg.

later members: Alvar Aalto, Uno Åhrén, Louis Herman De Koninck, Fred Forbát.

• Architecture could not exist unaffected by economic and social conditions.
  It could not be isolated from governments an politics.
• Achieving quality in architecture depended on the rationalized production methods of the industrialized world.

http://presence-architecture.com/Index/index.html

TEAM 10 "TEAM X" (1953 - 1981)

Team 10 at the Free University, Berlin, 1973.
From left to right: Peter Smithson, Ungers, Schiedhelm, De Carlo, Van Eyck and Sia Bakema.
Photograph by Jeffrey Schere.

founded at the 9th Congress of C.I.A.M and created a schism within CIAM by challenging its doctrinaire approach to urbanism (July 1953). 

core family members: Jaap Bakema, Georges Candilis, Giancarlo De Carlo, Aldo van Eyck, Alison and Peter Smithson, Shadrach Woods.

others: José Coderch, Ralph Erskine, Pancho Guedes, Rolf Gutmann, Geir Grung, Oskar Hansen, Reima Pietilä, Charles Polonyi, Brian Richards, Jerzy Soltan, Oswald Mathias Ungers, John Voelcker, Stefan Wewerka. 

"a small family group of architects who have sought each other out because each has found the help of the others necessary to the development and understanding of their own individual work."

http://www.team10online.org/

EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE (1960 - 1978)

development of conceptual projects challenging conventional and consolidated practices

to explore original paths of thought and develop innovative design tools & methodologies

ARCHIGRAM (1961 - 1974)

 http://www.archigram.net/

JAPANESE METABOLISTS (1960)

Moshe Safdie's Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)

http://outsiderjapan.pbworks.com

CEDRIC PRICE (1960)

 http://designmuseum.org/

SUPERSTUDIO (1966 - 1978)

 http://designmuseum.org/

HAUS-RUCKER CO. (1967)

http://www.spatialagency.net/

COOP HIMMELBLAU (1968)

 http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/

CRITICAL REGIONALISM

an approach to architecture that strives to counter placelessness and lack of identity in Modern Architecture by using the building's geographical context. The term Critical Regionalism was first used by the architectural theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre and, with a slightly different meaning, by the historian-theorist Kenneth Frampton.

DECONSTRUCTIVISM

The projects in this exhibition mark a different sensibility, one in which the dream of pure form has been disturbed. It is the ability to disturb our thinking about form that makes these projects deconstructive. The show examines an episode, a point of intersection between several architects where each constructs an unsettling building by exploiting the hidden potential of modernism. 

Phillip Johnson and Mark Wigley, excerpt from the MoMA Deconstructivist Architecture catalog

PARAMETRIC DESIGN & FABRICATION