Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition
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Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition
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"This new edition ensures that the book will continue to be internationally acknowledged as the standard work on the development of modern architecture." -Walter Gropius
"A remarkable accomplishment. . . one of the most valuable reference books for students and professionals concerned with the reshaping of our environment. " -José Luis Sert
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 Sigfried 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 Jørn 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 José 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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674254053 |
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| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication date: | 02/28/2009 |
| Series: | The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 960 |
| Sales rank: | 627,004 |
| File size: | 59 MB |
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Table of Contents
Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction: Architecture of the 1960's: Hopes and Fears Part I. 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 Part II. Our Architectural Inheritance The New Space Conception: Perspective 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 Francesco Borromini, 1599-1667 Guarino Guarini, 1624-1683 South Germany: Vierzehnheiligen The Residential Group and Nature Single Squares Series of Interrelated Squares Part III. 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 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 Part IV. 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. G. Perret Tony Garnier Part V. 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 Leiter Building, 1889 The Reliance Building, 1894 Sullivan: The Carson, Pirie, Scott Store, 1889-1906 The Influence of the Chicago World's Fair, 1893 Wright and the American Development The Cruciform and the Elongated Plan Plane Surfaces and Structure The Urge toward the Organic Office Buildings Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright's Late Period Part VI. Space-time in Art, Architecture, and Construction Do We Need Artists? The Research Into Space: Cubism The Ariistic Means The Research Into Movement: Futurism Painting Today The Bridges of Robert Maillart Afterword Germany in the Nineteenth Century Walter Gropius Germany after the First W'orld IT'ar and the Bauhaus The Bauhaus Buildings at Dessau, 1926 Architectural Aims The Significance of the Post-1930 Emigration Walter Gropius and the American Scene Architectural Activity Gropius as Educator Later Development American Embassy in Athens, 1956-1961 Le Corbusier and the Means of Architectonic Expression The Villa Savoie, 1928-1930 The League of Nations Competition, 1927: Contemporary Architecture Comes to the Front Large Constructions and Architectural Aims Social Imagination The Unite d'Habitation, 1947-1952 Chandigarh Later Work The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, 1963 Le Corbusier and His Clients The Priory of Ste. Marie de la Tourette, 1960 The Legacy of Le Corbusier Mies Van Der Rohe and the Integrity of Form The Elements of Mies van der Rohe's Architecture Country Houses, 1923 The Weissenhof Housing Settlement, Stuttgart, 1927 The Illinois Institute of Technology, 1939 High-rise Apartments Office Buildings On the Integrity of Form Union between Life and Architecture The Complementarity of the Differentiated and the Primitive Finnish Architecture before 1930 Aalto's First Buildings Paimio: The Sanatorium, 1929-1933 The Undulating Wall Sunila: Factory and Landscape, 1937-1939 Mairea, 1938-1939 Organic Town Planning Civic and Cultural Centers Furniture in Standard Units Aalto as Architect The Human Side Relations to the Past Jørn Utzon The Horizontal Plane as a Constituent Element The Right of Expression: The Vaults of the Sydney Opera House Empathy with the Situation: The Zurich Theater, 1964 Sympathy with the Anonymous Client Imagination and Implementation The International Congresses for Modern Architecture (Clam) and the Formation of Contemporary Architecture Part VII. City Planning in the Nineteenth Century Early Nineteenth Century The Rue de Rivoli of Napoleon I The Dominance of Greenery: The London Squares The Garden Squares of Bloomsbury Large-scale Housing Development: Regent's Park The Street Becomes Dominant: The Transformation of Paris, 1853-1868 Paris in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century The "Trois Reseaux" of Eugene Haussmann Squares, Boulevards, Gardens, and Plants The City as a Technical Problem Haussmann's Use of Modern Methods of Finance The Basic Unit of the Street The Scale of the Street Haussmann's Foresight: His Influence Part VIII. City Planning as a Human Problem The Late Nineteenth Century Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Patrick Geddes and Arturo Soria y Mata Tony Garnier's Cite Industrielle, 1901-1904 Amsterdam and the Rebirth of Town Planning H. P. Berlage's Plans for Amsterdam South The General Extension Plan of Amsterdam, 1934 Interrelations of Housing and Activities of Private Life Part IX. Space-time in City Planning Contemporary Attitude toward Town Planning Destruction or Transformation? The American Parkway in the Thirties High-rise Buildings in Open Space Freedom for the Pedestrian The Civic Center: Rockefeller Center, 1931-1939 City and State The City: No Longer an Enclosed Organism Continuity and Change The Individual and Collective Spheres Signs of Change and of Constancy Part X. In Conclusion On the Limits of the Organic in Architecture Politics and Architecture IndexWhat People are Saying About This
Dr. Sigfried Giedion is today recognized as one of the world's most eminent architectural critics and historians. The unusual success of his Space, Time and Architecture, first published in 1941 and now greatly revised and expanded, is due to his deep investigation into the whole philosophical and technical background of our modern civilization. This new edition ensures that the book will continue to be internationally acknowledged as the standard work on the development of modern architecture.