Team X

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Team X (or Team 10) was a group of architects and other invited participants who assembled starting in July 1953 at the 9th Congress of C.I.A.M.. The first meeting formally under the name of Team 10 took place in Bagnols-sur-Cèze in 1960; the last, with only four members present, was in Lisbon in 1981. The initial participants listed below, consisted of ten personalities, and referred to themselves as "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."^[1]

Jaap B. Bakema, Holland
Aldo van Eyck, Holland
Georges Candilis, France
Alison and Peter Smithson, England
Shadrach Woods, France
Giancarlo De Carlo, Italy
Jose A. Coderch, Spain
Charles Polonyi, Hungary
Jerzy Soltan, Poland
Stefan Wewerka, Germany

1 Influence
2 Teaching
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Influence

In 1953, some younger C.I.A.M. members envisioned other ways of considering the role of building within the context of urban design. They established themselves as Team X (Ten), but now independent of C.I.A.M., and with a new agenda. Team X argued for a fresh appreciation of architecture in general, and particularly within the social life of cities, in light of the destructive war years and the monumental task of rebuilding European cities.

Team X members, other architects, and professionals of different callings, world wide, shared a vision of architecture and the city that they articulated through designs, publications, and teaching. The discourse in Modernist architecture shifted, and one might say, a new paradigm emerged.

A critical aspect of this shift was the recognition that architecture and urban design are team tasks; that the architect's primary client, even in the execution of the individual project, ultimately, was society itself. Architectural practice was reconsidered and colleagues with special knowledge called upon.