Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne

Other founder members included Karl Moser (first president), Hendrik Berlage, Victor Bourgeois, Pierre Chareau, Sven Markelius, Josef Frank, Gabriel Guevrekian, Max Ernst Haefeli, Hugo Häring, Arnold Höchel, Huib Hoste, Pierre Jeanneret (cousin of Le Corbusier), André Lurçat, Ernst May, Max Cetto, Fernando García Mercadal, Hannes Meyer, Werner M. Moser, Carlo Enrico Rava, Gerrit Rietveld, Alberto Sartoris, Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, Rudolf Steiger, Szymon Syrkus, Henri-Robert Von der Mühll, and Juan de Zavala.

The Soviet delegates were El Lissitzky, Nikolai Kolli and Moisei Ginzburg, although at the Sarraz conference they were unable to obtain visas.

In 1941, Harwell Hamilton Harris was chosen as secretary of the American branch of CIAM, which was the Chapter for Relief and Post War Planning, founded in New York City.

The city planning ideas were adopted in the rebuilding of Europe following World War II, although by then some CIAM members had their doubts.

When implemented in the postwar period, many of these ideas were compromised by tight financial constraints, poor understanding of the concepts, or popular resistance.

Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart 1927. CIAM promoted modern architecture in the "Cubist style": the Bauhaus , Weissenhof , De Stijl , and modern projects of the Palace of Nations in Geneva . Parallel movements of the 1920s include Expressionism , Constructivism , Art Deco , and Traditionalism .
Otterlo Meeting 1959 (also CIAM '59), organized by Team 10 , 43 participants. Meeting place: Kröller-Müller Museum , located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park . Dissolution of the organization CIAM.