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Review: Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937–69 by Eric Mumford

2011; University of California Press; Volume: 70; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2011.70.1.123

2150-5926

Jayne Merkel,

Architecture and Art History Studies

Book Review| March 01 2011 Review: Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937–69 by Eric Mumford Eric Mumford. Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937–69. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, 272 pp., 15 color, 91 b/w illus. $55, ISBN 9780300138887 Jayne Merkel Jayne Merkel New York City Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2011) 70 (1): 123–124. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.1.123 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jayne Merkel; Review: Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937–69 by Eric Mumford. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2011; 70 (1): 123–124. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.1.123 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In this meticulously documented book, Eric Mumford describes the formation of the influential Urban Design program at Harvard, emphasizing the role of its founders and their roots in the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM). This research builds on two of Mumford's earlier publications: his 2000 book The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928–1960,1 which chronicles the international conferences in Europe, and his publication in 2008 with Hashim Sarkis, Josep Lluís Sert, The Architect of Urban Design, 1953–1969.2 The latter is a book of essays on the architect who served as president of CIAM from 1947 to 1956 and directed the Harvard Urban Design program as dean and chairman of architecture at the Graduate School of Design between 1953 and 1969. Mumford's goal in the present work is to elucidate and defend the role that CIAM-influenced urban design played in America. He believes it has been misunderstood-that... You do not currently have access to this content.