Minnette de Silva climbing up to inspect concrete pillars and slab work of the De Saram house, Colombo

NOTES: The Congres International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), founded in Switzerland in 1928 and disbanded in 1959, was the think tank of the Modern Movement. For a full list of the delgates depicted in this image see: Architectural Design, October 1947, p.258. See also: RIBA94519.

NOTES: The Vitra Design Museum was founded in 1989, with the main buildng designed by Frank Gehry. Surrounding the museum is the Vitra Campus or architecture park, which was developed from 1981, as a showcase of contemporary architecture, after a major fire had destroyed most of the previous 1950s factory buildings on the site.

NOTES; The 18-acre United Nations site on the east side of Midtown Manhattan is officially international territory. The 39-storey Secretariat was the first high-rise building in New York to use the curtain wall, albeit on its east and west elevations. It was designed by an international team which included Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer and Wallace Harrison, and is the centrepiece of the complex which includes an assembly building and library.