Main entry:
Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968.
Title & Author:
Space, time, and architecture; the growth of a new tradition.
Publication:
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1962.
Description:
xlviii, 778 pages illustrations, maps, diagrams, plans 26 cm.
Series:
The Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 1938-1939
Notes:
Bibliographical footnotes.
Introduction. Architecture of the 1960s : hopes and fears -- pt. I. History of 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
Pt. 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 (1858-1590) 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
Pt. 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 -- École 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 -- New forms, new shapes -- Gustave Eiffel and his tower
Pt. IV. The demand for morality in architecture -- The nineties : precursors of contemporary architecture -- What were the sources of this movement? -- 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
Pt. 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 flexile 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, 1899-1906 -- The influence of the Chicago World's Fair, 1893 -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- 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
Pt. VI. Space-time in art, architecture, and construction -- The new space conception : space-time -- Do we need artists? -- The research into space : cubism -- The artistic means -- The research into movement : futurism -- Painting today -- Construction and aesthetics : slab and plane -- The bridges of Robert Maillart -- Afterword -- Walter Gropius and the German development -- Germany in the nineteenth century -- Walter Gropius -- Post-war Germany and the Bauhaus -- The Bauhaus buildings at Dessau, 1926 -- Architectural aims -- Walter Gropius in America -- The significance of the post-1930 emigration -- Walter Gropius and the American scene -- Architectural activity -- Gropius as educator -- 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 -- Le Corbusier's development between 1938 and 1952 -- 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 -- Mies van der Rohe builds -- On the integrity of form -- Alvar Aalto : elemental and contemporary -- The complementarity of the differentiated and the primitive -- Finland -- Finnish architecture before 1930 -- Aalto's first buildings -- Paimio : the sanatorium, 1929-1933 -- The undulating wall -- Sunila : factory and landscape, 1937-1939 -- Mairea -- Organic town planning -- Furniture in standard units -- The human side -- The development of contemporary architecture
Pt. 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 Réseaux" of Eugène 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
Pt. VIII. City planning as a human problem -- The late nineteenth century -- Ebenezer Howard and the garden city -- Tony Garnier's Cité Industrielle, 1901-1904 -- Amsterdam and the rebirth of town planning -- The general extension plan of Amsterdam, 1934 -- interrelations of housing and activities of private life
Pt. IX. Space-time in city planning -- Contemporary attitude toward town planning -- Destruction or transformation? -- The new scale in city planning -- The parkway -- Tall buildings in open space -- A civic center -- In conclusion.
Subject:
Architecture History.
City planning History.
Architecture Histoire.
Architecture.
City planning.
Form/genre:
Lectures.
History.
Added entries:
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1938-1939.
Holdings:
Location: Library main 178063
Call No.: NA2599.8.G454.A73 1962
Status: Available
