Modern Architectural Research Group

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The Modern Architectural Research Group , also MARS Group , was an architectural company existing in the United Kingdom from 1933 to 1957 . It was founded by a number of prominent architects and architecture critics at the time of the emerging International Style . It emerged after several unsuccessful attempts and was intended to strengthen the architects of modernism in Great Britain, as the Union des Artistes Modernes in France already did for mainland Europe.

The idea for this came from Sigfried Giedion , who approached the English architecture critic Philip Morton Shand at the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne that Great Britain should be represented at the event by its own group. In addition to Shand, the founding fathers are the architects Wells Coates , Maxwell Fry and FRS Yorke. They were supported by the English architectural group Tecton Group , including Ove Arup and John Betjeman .

The think tank published visionary ideas for urban planning and organized a series of exhibitions. At their wedding, the MARS Group had over 120 members at times. A highly acclaimed exhibition was the New Architecture exhibition , which took place between January 11 and 29, 1938 at the New Burlington Gallery in London . Although it attracted over 7,000 visitors, it was still a financial failure. Over the years, however, the differences in content became so great that they dissolved as a result in 1957.

literature

  • John Robert Gold: The Modern Architectural Research (MARS) Group , Vance Bibliographies, 1987, ISBN 978-1555902247 .

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