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47 Ibid. 48 Kenneth Frampton expanded Alex Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre’s notion of “critical regionalism” in “Towards a Critical Regionalism,” The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, H. ) (Seattle: Bay Press, 1983), 20. 49 Jacob Bakema, “Introduction,” CIAM ’59 at Otterlo, 10. 50 Ibid. Modern (or Contemporary) Architecture circa 1959 29 51 See Chapters 10 and 11, Nathaniel Coleman, Utopias and Architecture (New York: Routledge, 2005). 52 CIAM ’59 in Otterlo, 186. For an outline of developments in urban design in the 1950s, see Peter Laurence, “The Death and Life of Urban Design,” Journal of Urban Design 11 (Jun.
Contemporary Architecture and the Generation of ’56 The transition from “modern” to “contemporary” architecture was a generational shift. ”7 With his keen historical consciousness, Le Corbusier understood that there were significant differences in the experiences of the Generation of ’28, most of whom were born in the 1880s and came of age in the 1920s and ’30s, and the new Generation of ’56, most of whom were born in the 1910s and ’20s. 8 Indeed, as early as CIAM 6 in 1947, a meeting intended to be a post-war “reaffirmation of the aims of CIAM,” Bakema and van Eyck had criticized many of modern architecture’s fundamental principles, particularly those related to city planning.
19 Thomas Kuhn (1962), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edn (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), 82. , 170–73. 21 Adolf Behne (1923), The Modern Functional Building (Der moderne Zweckbau) (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Research Institute, 1996), 123. W. Norton & Company, 1966), 39. , 373. 24 Leicester B. Holland, “The Function of Functionalism,” Architect and Engineer 126 (Aug. 1936), 25, 32. Presented at the 68th Convention of the American Institute of Architects, May 1936, and also reprinted in Octagon 8 (Jul.