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Eric Mumford
"CIAM, the Functional City, and Zlín."
May 21 2009
An architectural and urban design historian and architect he is Professor of Architecture, Art History, and History at Washington University in St. Louis, and is the author of The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (2000), the only book-length history of the International Congress of Modern Architecture. He is also the editor and co-author of Josep Lluís Sert: the architect of urban design (2008), Modern Architecture in St. Louis: Washington University and postwar American architecture, 1948-1973 (2004), and the forthcoming Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the formation of a discipline, 1937-1969 (2009). He has published and lectured nationally and internationally on CIAM, on the urban design work and pedagogy of CIAM President and Harvard GSD Dean Josep Lluís Sert, and on other aspects of modern architecture and urbanism. In spring 2004 he was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.
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