Athens Charter Research Articles

Functional Warsaw: A challenge from the past

This article describes the planning concept known as ‘Functional Warsaw’ (Warszawa Funkejonalna) prepared in 1934 by the architects and urban planners Jan Chmielewski and Szymon Syrkus. This planning exercise can be considered both as a most spectacular example of progressive trends in Polish urban planning thought in the inter‐war period, and as an attempt to respond to the challenge created by the widely known ‘Charter of Athens’ regarding the postulates of the functional urban region. The article is divided into four sections. The first considers the national background in which circumstances conducive to development of urban thought in Poland created favourable conditions for the relatively early practice of regional planning. The next section deals with the international context, the influence of the foreign avant garde movement as represented in CIAM (the International Congresses of Modern Architecture). In the third section, the authors’ model of the functional urbanized region is described; some c...

Review: The Athens Charter by Le Corbusier, Anthony Eardley

Book Review| October 01 1974 Review: The Athens Charter by Le Corbusier, Anthony Eardley The Athens CharterLe CorbusierAnthony Eardley Reyner Banham Reyner Banham Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1974) 33 (3): 260–261. https://doi.org/10.2307/988885 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Reyner Banham; Review: The Athens Charter by Le Corbusier, Anthony Eardley. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 October 1974; 33 (3): 260–261. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/988885 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1974 The Society of Architectural Historians Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.