MARS Group 3464577 216474190 2008-06-01T20:41:26Z JimmyGuano 440326 avoid redirect The '''Modern Architectural Research Group''', or '''MARS Group''', was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[architecture|architectural]] think tank founded in [[1933]] by several prominent architects and architectural critics of the time involved in the British [[International style (architecture)|modernist movement]]. The MARS Group actually came after several previous but unsuccessful attempts at creating an organization to support modernist architects in Britain such as those that had been formed on continental Europe, like the Union des Artistes Modernes in [[France]]. The group first formed when [[Sigfried Giedion]] of the [[Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne]] asked [[Morton Shand]] to assemble a group that would represent Britain at their events. Shand, along with [[Wells Coates]], chose [[Maxwell Fry]] and [[F. R. S. Yorke]] as the founding members. They were also joined by a few members of [[Tecton]], another architectural group, by [[Ove Arup]] and by [[John Betjeman]], a poet and contributor to ''[[Architectural Review]]''. At its height there were about 58 members in the group. The group's greatest success came in [[1938]] with a show at the New Burlington Galleries, but it also unfortunately left them in debt. The group itself began to lose steam along with the movement and many members left as a result of creative differences. The group finally disbanded in [[1957]]. ==Online sources== * [http://www.designmuseum.org/design/index.php?id=61 Design Museum] [[Category:Architectural history]] [[Category:Modernism]] [[Category:Architecture groups]] {{architecture-stub}}