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After World War II, the inflexibility characterizing the first CIAM congresses soon become unsustainable, provoking the criticism of Team 10, active from 1953 for a reform of the congress. The participated discourse of the group, “considering the characteristics of society and individuals”, would be inherited, years later, by the International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD), founded by Giancarlo De Carlo in 1976. The laboratory, together with the magazine Spazio e Società (1978-2001), called back to De Carlo’s operative militancy in Team 10, expressing a brand-new approach to urban studies. As De Carlo himself affirmed: “Some messages of Team 10 have been gathered in ILAUD […] but ILAUD and Team 10 are different things”. Indeed, the laboratory strongly pushed on the dimension of the project and on the students’ collective contribution. The project was no more an end point but became the tool through which every possible solution to the problem could be tested. Courses at ILAUD were given by international professionals like Aldo Van Eyck, Peter Smithson, Renzo Piano, Sverre Fehn and Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, some already in Team 10. The laboratory formed many young students, and several would have become internationally-recognized professionals -e.g. Eric Miralles, Carme Pinos, Santiago Calatrava, Mario Cucinella-. The paper wants to consider the contribution of ILAUD to urban studies and didactics through the examination of the rich material (annual publications, posters, projects, photos, etc.) collected in the archive of the Biblioteca Poletti in Modena. The aim is to point out how ILAUD represented a turning point in the formation of the post-CIAM generation and a certain reference for the architectural practices of the XXI century.
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CIAM Giancarlo De Carlo ILAUD Spazio e Società Team 10
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GRIECO, Lorenzo – Breaking Barriers. Giancarlo De Carlo from CIAM to ILAUD in REVISITING POST-CIAM GENERATION. Debates, proposals and intellectual framework. Porto: CEAA/ESAP-CESAP, 2019, p. 167-180