The AR salutes Monica Pidgeon: indomitable architectural enthusiast, editor and archivist

摘要

Monica Pidgeon, who died on 17 September at the age of 95, kept a scrapbook of personal and professional mementos and photographs from every year of her life. The pages provide a powerful and emotive sense of the energy and potential of the post-war generation, who believed that they could create a better world after the carnage of WWII, using modernism and global cooperation as their tools.rnPasted into the pages are details of the founding meeting of the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) in Lausanne, of which Monica was on the organising committee. Le Corbusier is photographed addressing the eighth Congres International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, with Monica sitting in the front row. A youthful Denys Lasdun and Erno Goldfinger are snapped by Monica with Welles Coates at the CIAM 9 congress, when the schism between CIAM and Team X emerged into the open.