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Monday, June 6, 2011

CIAM _Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne_

A brief history of the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)

ALVARO SIZA

'What I appreciate and look for most in architecture is clarity and simplism. Simplicity and simplism are known to be opposites, just as unity and diversity are not. Simplicity results from the control of complexity and the contradictions of any programme. Complexity and internal contradictions - external, also, when a new structure is confronted with what preceeded and what surrounds it, taking on a not necessarily predictable destiny. For this reason, the more character a building has and the clearer its form, the more flexible its vocation.'