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Le Corbusier is a principal founder of CIAM at La Sarraz in 1928, a congress machine for modern architecture

In June 1928 CIAM was founded at La Sarraz, Switzerland, with Le Corbusier among the principal organisers of a recurring congress of modern architects. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In June 1928 CIAM was founded at La Sarraz, Switzerland, with Le Corbusier among the principal organisers of a recurring congress of modern architects. He did not own every later CIAM vote. Education here is a professional public. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (opens in a new tab) (Museum of Modern Art).

Context

Gropius and Mies are related as modern colleagues. Team X’s later revolt is reception. The Fondation treats CIAM as the relay of his urban ideas — that interested memory is stored as a limit.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Why it matters

Founding a modern-architecture congress is an education path. High confidence on 1928. The Charter’s later harm is the other row.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Le Corbusier

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He was a leading founder with Giedion, Gropius-circle moderns, and others at La Sarraz. Complex movement founding.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)Museum of Modern Art · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Fondation Le Corbusier — English portalFondation Le Corbusier · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Fondation Le Corbusier independently frames CIAM from 1928. MoMA independently historicises CIAM. Britannica independently places him in CIAM. No unique 1928 membership census is invented.

Established: 1928 La Sarraz founding with LC as a principal. Not established: a unique later-ministry coefficient from 1928 alone. June 1928. Not 1933 as this title.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Le Corbusier is a principal founder of CIAM at La Sarraz in 1928, a congress machine for modern architecture are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Le Corbusier is a principal founder of CIAM at La Sarraz in 1928, a congress machine for modern architecture. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1928-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorLe Corbusier
  2. contributed toFactLe Corbusier is a principal founder of CIAM at La Sarraz in 1928, a congress machine for modern architecture
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Le Corbusier is a principal founder of CIAM at La Sarraz in 1928, a congress machine for modern architecture. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-ciam-founding

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Accessed 15 October 2026.

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