Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in FerroconcreteThis classic of twentieth-century architectural literature, now available in English for the first time, presents Sigfried Giedion's provocative vision of architecture in the industrial era and his response to technological advances in the production of key building materials. Giedion shows how iron and reinforced concrete allowed the construction of buildings of unprecedented size and openness in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the radical possibilities of skeletal support structures, he celebrates innovative uses of these materials in buildings from the Eiffel Tower and the Crystal Palace to glass-canopied railroad stations, department stores, and exhibition halls. With this volume, first published in 1928, Giedion became a leading advocate of modern architecture. He was the first to exalt Le Corbusier as the champion of the new style, at the expense of a considerable body of Germanic theory and practice, and his arguments strongly influenced the direction of architecture for the next four decades. Later, although diluting his criticism of architectual thought in previous periods, Giedion incorporated much of this text into Space, Time, and Architecture, his best-known work. |
Contents
Sokratis Georgiadis Introduction I | 58 |
BUILDING IN FRANCE BUILDING IN IRON BUILDING IN FERROCONCRETE | 79 |
INTRODUCTION 85100 | 85 |
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A. G. PERRET aesthetic already arch architect Archiv art-form artistic Baltard Bauen in Eisen Bauen in Frankreich Baukunst beauty Berlin Besprechungen-Rezensionen Biermann Boileau Bötticher bridge Buch Building in France BUILDING IN IRON Cité concrete constructor contemporary Corbusier Corbusier's Deutsche Bauzeitung Deutscher Werkbund Eiffel Tower Eisenbeton elements emphasis in original engineer exhibition facade ferroconcrete FRANTZ JOURDAIN French function GALERIE DES MACHINES Getty Center girders glass Gottfried Semper halls Heinrich Wölfflin Henri Labrouste Hermann Muthesius Hofmann idea industry interpenetration Introduction iron construction iron skeleton Kunst later Le Corbusier League of Nations lecture Les Halles Lucae material meters Meyer modern architecture monumental Muthesius neue neuen nineteenth century Paris Pessac possible problem railroad stations Richard Streiter roof Scheffler Sigfried Giedion space span spatial stone structure style suspended Tektonik tion TONY GARNIER tradition truss unserer vaults walls Wölfflin Zeit Zurich
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