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The Athens Charter (French: Charte d'Athènes, Greek: Χάρτα των Αθηνών) was a 1933 document about urban planning published by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The work was based upon Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse (Radiant City) book of 1935 and urban studies undertaken by the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM ...
The Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments is a seven-point manifesto adopted at the First International Congress of Architects and Technicians of Historic Monuments in Athens in 1931.
The Athens Charter of 1931 introduced the concept of international heritage. In 1964, the Second Congress of Architects and Specialists of Historic Buildings, meeting in Venice , adopted 13 resolutions.
The principles of the Ville radieuse were incorporated into his later publication, the Athens Charter published in 1933. His utopian ideal formed the basis of a number of urban plans during the 1930s and 1940s culminating in the design and construction of the first Unité d'habitation in Marseille in 1952.
1932, First edition of the Carta del Restauro (Restoration Charter) prepared, based on the Athens Charter of 1931. 1934, Conservation training program began at the Courtauld Institute in London. 1934, First translated publication of Max Doerner's The Materials of the Artist and their Use in Paintings.
The Athens Charter is published by the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne group of architects. Nikolaus Pevsner's book An Outline of European Architecture is published in Britain. The County of London Plan is prepared by J. H. Forshaw and Patrick Abercrombie.
She was an editor of the Athens Charter. [2] She married Szymon Syrkus in 1925. [2] During the 1930s, Syrkus and her husband developed the Na Rakowcu housing project for workers. After World War II, she worked on plans for the reconstruction of the city of Warsaw. With her husband, she worked on the Na Kole estate in Warsaw, which housed 10,000 ...
At the end of 2011, Hellenic Imperial Airways suspended all of its scheduled flights. It operated very few charter flights in 2012; since then, the airline has suspended operations. Two of its Boeing 747-200B aircraft were abandoned at Athens International Airport while the remaining two were stored at Karachi and Jakarta.