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Space, Time and Architecture The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition

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ISBN-10: 0674030478

ISBN-13: 9780674030473

Edition: 5th 1969

Authors: Sigfried Giedion, Sigfried Giedion

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $55.00
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 1969
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 960
Size: 6.87" wide x 9.63" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.432

Introduction: Architecture of the 1960rsquo;s: Hopes and Fears
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
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
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
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
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