Team X
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Team X (or Team 10) is an architects group. Several personalities have been members of it througout the years: Alison and Peter Smithson, Giancarlo De Carlo, Aldo Van Eyck.
In 1950, following the Second World War (1939-45), some younger C.I.A.M. members envisioned other ways of considering the role of building within the context of urban design. They established themselves as Team X (Ten), but now independent of C.I.A.M., and with a new agenda. Team X argued for a fresh appreciation of architecture in general, and particularly within the social life of cities, in light of the destructive war years and the monumental task of rebuilding European cities.
Team X members, other architects, and professionals of different callings, world wide, shared a vision of architecture and the city that they articulated through designs, publications, and teaching. The discourse in Modernist architecture shifted, and one might say, a new paradigm emerged.
A critical aspect of this shift was the recognition that architecture and urban design are team tasks; that the architect's primary client, even in the execution of the individual project, ultimately, was society itself. Architectural practice was reconsidered and colleagues with special knowledge called upon.