Space, Time and Architecture : The Growth of a New Tradition

by Giedion, Sigfried

• ISBN13: 9780674830400
• ISBN10: 0674830407
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1967-05-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

A milestone in modern thought, Space, Time and Architecture has been reissued many times since its first publication in 1941 and translated into half a dozen languages. In this revised edition of Mr. Giedion's classic work, major sections have been added and there are 81 new illustrations. The chapters on leading contemporary architects have been greatly expanded. There is new material on the later development of Frank Lloyd Wright and the more recent buildings of Walter Gropius, particularly his American Embassy in Athens. In his discussion of Le Corbusier, Mr. Giedion provides detailed analyses of the Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Le Corbusier's only building in the United States, and his Priory of La Tourette near Lyons. There is a section on his relations with his clients and an assessment of his influence on contemporary architecture, including a description of the Le Corbusier Center in Zurich (designed just before his death], which houses his works of art. The chapters on Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto have been brought up to date with examples of their buildings in the sixties. There is an entirely new chapter on the Danish architect Jorn Utzon, whose work, as exemplified in his design for the Sydney Opera House, Mr. Giedion considers representative of post-World War II architectural concepts. A new essay, "Changing Notions of the City," traces the evolution of the structure of the city throughout history and examines current attempts to deal with urban growth, as shown in the work of such architects as Joseacute; Luis Sert, Kenzo Tange, and Fumihiko Maki. Mr. Sert's Peabody Terrace is discussed as an example of the interlocking of the collective and individual spheres. Finally, the conclusion has been enlarged to include a survey of the limits of the organic in architecture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Architecture of the 1960's: Hopes and Fears

History a Part of Life

Introduction

The Historian's Relation to His Age

The Demand for Continuity Contemporary History

The Identity of Methods Transitory and Constituent Facts

Architecture as an Organism Procedure

Our Architectural Inheritance

The New Space Conception: Perspective

Perspective and Urbanism Prerequisites for the Growth of Cities

The Star-Shaped City

Perspective and the Constituent Elements of the City

The Wall, the Square, and the Street Bramante and the Open Stairway

Michelangelo and the Modeling of Outer Space

What Is the Real Significance of the Area Capitolina?

Leonardo da Vinci and the Dawn of Regional

Planning Sixtus V (1585-1590) and the Planning of Baroque Rome

The Medieval and the Renaissance City Sixtus V and His Pontificate

The Master Plan

The Social Aspect

The Late Baroque

The Undulating Wall and the Flexible Ground Plan Francesco Borromini, 1599-1667

Guarino Guarini, 1624-1683

South Germany: Vierzehnheiligen

The Organization of Outer Space

The Residential Group and Nature Single Squares

Series of Interrelated Squares

The Evolution of New Potentialities

Industrialization as a Fundamental Event

Iron Early Iron Construction in England

The Sunderland Bridge Early Iron Construction on the Continent

From the Iron Column to the Steel Frame

The Cast-Iron Column Toward the Steel Frame James Bogardus

The St. Louis River Front Early Skeleton Buildings Elevators

The Schism Between Architecture and Technology Discussions

Ecole Polytechnique: the Connection between Science and Life

The Demand for a New Architecture

The Interrelations of Architecture and Engineering Henri Labrouste, Architect Constructor, 1801-1875

New Building Problems--New Solutions Market Halls Department Stores

The Great Exhibitions

The Great Exhibition, London, 1851

The Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1855

Paris Exhibition of 1867

Paris Exhibition of 1878

Paris Exhibition of 1889

Chicago, 1893

Gustave Eiffel and His Tower

The Demand for Morality in Architecture

The Nineties: Precursors of Contemporary Architecture

Brussels the Center of Contemporary Art, 1880-1890

Victor Horta's Contribution Berlage's Stock

Exchange and the Demand for Morality Otto Wagner and the Viennese School

Ferroconcrete and its Influence upon Architecture A. C. Perret Tony Gamier

American Development

Europe Observes American Production

The Structure of American Industry

The Balloon Frame and Industrialization

The Balloon Frame and the Building-up of the West

The Invention of the Balloon Frame George Washington Snow, 1797-1870

The Balloon Frame and the Windsor Chair Plane Surfaces in American Architecture

The Flexible and Informal Ground Plan

The Chicago School

The Apartment House Toward Pure Forms The

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