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"The movement came into being in late 1960, in the
Hampstead area of London as a self-generated forum for several young and recently graduated architects, the major
participants being Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, David Greene, Dennis Crompton and Mike (Spider) Webb.
The uniting theme of the group was their impatience and dissatisfaction with the limited horizons and stultifying practices
of contemporary modern architecture. Following the tradition of radical modernism enunciated by Nietzsche ("Whoever
wants to be creative . . . . must first . . . . annihilat[e] and destroy values"); and Henrik Ibsen ("The great task of our time
is to blow up all existing institutions - to destroy"), this formative group of young architects set out to dismantle the
apparatus of modern architecture through a series of consciousness-raising and confrontational manifestos."
DOCOMOMO
The term DOCOMOMO stands for Documentation and
Conservation of the Modern Movement.
Raze paradise put up a golf course ?
Fans of Modernism Criticize Cigna's Plan to Raze Offices
To the people with an eye on the bottom line, they are expensive
dinosaurs that should be bulldozed for a golf course. But to the
architects who gathered at a symposium in New Haven two weekends ago to
discuss corporate Modernism, two buildings on the Bloomfield, Conn.,
campus of Cigna Corporation are icons of the International style that
merit praise and preservation.