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Summary
"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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Architecture of the 1960rsquo;s: Hopes and Fears |
Part I History A Part Of Life |
Introduction |
The Historianrsquo;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 |
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 |
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 |
Eacute;cole 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 |
Part IV The Demand For Morality In Architecture |
The Nineties: Precursors of Contemporary Architecture |
Brussels the Center of Contemporary Art, 1880-1890 |
Victor Hortarsquo;s Contribution |
Berlagersquo;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 |
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 Worldrsquo;s Fair, 1893 |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
Wright and the American Development |
The Cruciform and the Elongated Plan |
Plane Surfaces and Structure |
The Urge |