Giedeon, S., 1972, Space, time and architecture, Harvard University Press, London
- Author : Giedeon, S.
- Year : 1972
- Title English : Space, Time and Architecture
- Publisher : Harvard University Press
- Publisher's Location : London
- ISBN : 978-0674830400
- Pages : 960
- Edition : 5
- Comments : 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 Jos 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.
- Outline : Content: 2 Jakob Burckhardt, Francois Arago, Baroque TRANSITORY AND CONSTITUENT FACTS 17 baroque, Frank Lloyd Wright, Counter Reformation PERSPECTIVE 30 barrel vault, Brunelleschi, Renaissance PERSPECTIVE AND THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS OF THE CITY 55 Michelangelo, Cortile del Belvedere, Donato Bramante If hat Is the Real Significance of the Area Capitolina? 70 Sixtus, Domenico Fontana, Rome The Master Plan 91 Sixtus, Domenico Fontana, obelisk THE LATE BAROQUE 107 Francesco Borromini, Pazzi Chapel, wire sculptures Guarino Guarini 121 GUARINO GUARINI, Louis Le Vau, BALTHASAR NEUMANN Single Squares 141 THE EVOLUTION OF NEW POTENTIALITIES 153 Lansdowne Crescent, LE CORBUSIER, THEO VAN DOESBURG IRON 167 Abraham Darby, Severn Bridge, MARC SEGUIN FROM THE IRON COLUMN TO THE STEEL FRAME 181 William Fairbairn, JOHN NASH, Boulton and Watt James Bogardus 195 James Bogardus, JULES SAULNIER, Noisiel Elevators 208 HENRI LABROUSTE, Cesar Daly, James Bogardus NEW BUILDING PROBLEMS NEW SOLUTIONS 229 Bon Marche, Saint-Simonists, VICTOR BALTARD THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS 243 Joseph Paxton, lattice girders, Prince Consort Paris Exhibition of 260 Champ-de-Mars, lattice girders, Galerie des Machines Chicago 275 Garabit Viaduct, Gustave Eiffel, Blaise Cendrars PRECURSORS OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE 292 art nouveau, VICTOR HORTA, Brussels Berlages Stock Exchange and the Demand for Morality 308 Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Berlage, Otto Wagner FERROCONCRETE AND ITS INFLUENCE UPON ARCHITECTURE 322 Le Corbusier, ALVAR AALTO, Walter Gropius Tony Gamier 787 Europe Observes American Production 336 The Structure of American Industry 344 The Balloon Frame and the Buildingup of the West 350 The Flexible and Informal Ground Plan 363 The Apartment House 377 The Reliance Building 385 The Influence of the Chicago Worlds Fair 393 The Cruciform and the Elongated Plan 400 The Urge toward the Organic 414 Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright 424 SPACETIME 430 The Ariistic Means 437 FUTURISM 443 SLAB AND PLANE 450 Afterword 475 Walter Gropius 482 The Bauhaus Buildings at Dessau 491 Architectural Aims 497 Cropius as Educator 510 LE CORBUSIER AND THE MEANS OF ARCHITECTONIC EXPRESSION 518 The Villa Savoie 525 Large Constructions and Architectural Aims 539 Chandigarh 549 The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Harvard University 558 The Priory of Ste Marie de la Tourette 569 The Legacy of Le Corbusier 578 MIES VAN DER ROHE AND THE INTEGRITY OF FORM 587 The Weissenhof Housing Settlement Stuttgart 595 The Illinois Institute of Technology 601 Office Buildings 607 On the Integrity of Form 615 Finnish Architecture before 621 The Sanatorium 629 Sum fa Factory and Landscape 640 Organic Town Planning 648 Civic and Cultural Centers 655 Furniture in Standard Units 661 J0RN UTZON AND THE THIRD GENERATION 668 XIV 680 The Zurich Theater 688 Imagination and Implementation 694 Part VII 703 The Rue de Rivoli of Napoleon I 714 THE GARDEN SQUARES OF BLOOMSBURY 724 REGENTS PARK 734 Paris in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 740 Squares Boulevards Gardens and Plants 754 The City as a Technical Problem 762 The Scale of the Street 770 The Late Nineteenth Century 778 Patrick Ceddes and Arturo Soria y Mata 785 AMSTERDAM AND THE REBIRTH OF TOWN PLANNING 793 The General Extension Plan of Amsterdam 804 Interrelations of Housing and Activities of Private Life 810 Contemporary Attitude toward Town Planning 816 THE NEW SCALE IN CITY PLANNING 823 Highrise Ituildings in Open Space 833 freedom for the Pedestrian 840 CHANGING NOTIONS OF THE CITY 856 On the Limits of the Organic in Architecture 873