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In 1974 Team 10 gathered in Aldo van Eycks garden in Loenen aan de Vecht.
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TEAM 10 MEMBERS
Who's Who in Team 10
In 1974 Team 10 gathered in Aldo van Eycks garden
in Loenen aan de Vecht.
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Introduction
Team 10 didn't have any form of regular membership, and over the years the composition
of the group changed continuously. Van Eyck would say there were only participants,
not members. Still, looking at the group's history it is possible to recognize
a core of people who were the most active, combatant and outspoken. They can
be called the 'inner circle' of Team 10, and they involve Shadrach Woods, Alison
and Peter Smithson, Aldo van Eyck, Giancarlo De Carlo, Georges Candilis and
Jaap Bakema. They would organize the meetings, define the themes to be discussed,
or initiate publications on Team 10. Apart from De Carlo they were involved
in Team 10 right from its very beginning, and they would maintain close contacts
during the 1970s, also after the dissolution of Team 10, even well into the
1990s.
Around this inner circle there is a cloud of numerous other participants. Some
of these participants would consider themselves ‘real’ Team 10 members, yet
others might be surprised to find themselves on the list which we present here.
We split this group of participants into two circles. Even though we acknowledge
this split is to some degree arbitrary, we do think it is justifiable to differentiate
in levels of involvement in the Team 10 discourse. The first group of participants
consists of people who were involved over a longer period of time, or made an
important contribution; the second, larger group of incidental participants
and invited guests consists of people who were only briefly involved, sometimes
they would have attended only one meeting. We should mention, too, that we left
out many other people present at the meetings; they would be office employees,
or students joining an occasional meeting, or family members such as the wives
and children of Team 10 participants.
This list of Team 10 members, or participants, may be read parallel to the list
of meetings, which maps the changing composition
of the group.
The gathered data are based on a comparative study of source material. Given
that documentation of the various Team 10 meetings is far from complete and
unequivocal, a certain amount of prudence has been called for in the presentation
of this list.
The most important Team 10 documents consulted while compiling the data are
kept in the Bakema archive and the Smithsons archive at the Netherlands Architecture
Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam; and in the De Carlo archive at the University
of Venice (IUAV). John Voelcker’s archive, maintained by his family, provided
additional information on the early years. Extra data on activities in the 1970s
came largely from the archive of Manfred Schiedhelm. Owing to the dissolution
of Candilis-Josic-Woods and the premature death of Shadrach Woods, the firm’s
files have been dispersed and, even more unfortunately, have partly disappeared.
The Woods archive, previously maintained by Val Woods, has found a permanent
home at Columbia University. To date, however, no material on Team 10 meetings
organized by Candilis-Josic-Woods has been discovered; commentary on these meetings
is based on articles published in magazines (such as Le Carré Bleu) and
on relevant photographs culled from other archives. An exception is the meeting
in Royaumont; transcriptions of tape recordings made at this meeting are at
the NAi.
Generally speaking, we reconstructed the data with the use of photos, letters,
invitations, and such. Other material consisted of lists of those invited (often
inconsistent), published presentations, and diverse articles published after
meetings had taken place. We are also grateful for the use of material from
previous studies of CIAM and Team 10 carried out by a number of colleagues;
deserving of special mention are Jos Bosman, Eric Mumford, Annie Pedret and
Francis Strauven.
The biographies are based on texts by Dirk van den Heuvel, Veronique Patteeuw,
Tom Avermaete, Catherine Blain, Jos Bosman and Cor Wagenaar.
