 Shand, Coates, Yorke and three other members of the Mars Group attended their first CIAM congress in 1933, which took place on board an ocean-going liner journeying from Marseilles to Athens in July that year.A series of articles under the title "Scenario for a Human Drama", in "Architectural Review" of 1934–5, was Shand's attempt to document and place the contemporary architecture in Europe.In seven parts it set out ideas on the evolution of Continental modernism.