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	Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition (The Charles Eliot ...
		Giedion's treatment of Robert Maillart's graceful, parabolic spanning bridge designs in the Swiss Alps and some other places, such as the Tavanasa Bridge in the U.S., which he specifically discusses as one of Maillart's most important achievements, is also very interesting.
		Overall, Giedion's book is a fine treatment of an important and difficult period in the history of architecture, and is one of the most important books on architecture to be written in recent decades.
		Giedionýs mission is clear and he states that laissez faire mentality hinders development and that with common goals and values the world would be able to make changes for the better on a grand scale.
	www.gettextbooks.com /isbn_0674830407.html (1017 words)

	Paul Demarinis / Laetitia Sonami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		While war raged in Europa, Swiss architect and historian Siegfried Giedion roamed the remote backwaters of American patent archives, exploring and charting the anonymous history of the age of mechanical invention.
		Ever attentive to the impact of mechanization on the organic world, our lives and our bodies, Giedion's critical perspective surpasses mere historical documentation, teleological theory, or scientistic adulation: he bares the roots of the many contradictions underlying our current global crises of life and humanity versus the corporate mechanism and the ruling taste.
		Giedion has considered the machine as dictator of social & ethical values, of aesthetics, as a mirror of nature and as model of kind.
	homestudio.thing.net /habitation/PDEM/mechanizatxt.htm (2054 words)

	Siegfried GIEDION Table Lamp \| Switzerland 1932
		Giedion was a close associate of Walter Gropius.
		Giedion presented lectures at Harvard in which he broke with the German materialist tradition of 19th-century art history and described history in terms of constancy and change.
		Among Giedion's other works are "Mechanization Takes Command" (1948), two volumes of lectures entitled The Eternal Present (1964), and "Architecture and the Phenomena of Transition; The Three Space Conceptions in Architecture, (1968), handed over to his publisher the day before he died.
	www.goantiques.com /detail,siegfried-giedion-table,906341.html (208 words)

	Giedion - new and used books
		This example of 20th-century architectural literature presents Siegfried Giedion's vision of architecture in the industrial era and his response to technological advances in the production of key building materials.
		Giedion, Sigfried - Architecture and the Phenomena of Transition; The Three Space Conceptions in Architecture.
		The subtitle refers to Giedion's conviction that the modern movement was the logical outcome of what he saw as a linear historical development.
	www.isbn.pl /A-giedion (1103 words)

	Fortified Foods Fooling White Bread Americans
		Siegfried Giedion, in his book 'The Mechanization of the Organic,' comments: "The bread-making process refuses to be hastened beyond narrow limits, for mechanization here encounters a substance whose laws are inviolable.
		Giedion had not reckoned on the power of chemistry.
		Millers and bakers, as Giedion points out, still had to contend with a living substance.
	www.grainfields.com /fortifiedfoods.html (1166 words)

	Sample Chapter for Guillén, M.F.: The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of ...
		Most importantly, the leaders of the Chicago Movement, Adler and Sullivan, and their most distinguished disciple, Frank Lloyd Wright, failed to nurture a college of followers or to influence architectural education (Benevolo [1960] 1977, 191-250, 629-83; Hitchcock and Johnson [1932] 1995, 38-54; Pevsner [1936] 1960, 32).
		For instance, the English Arts and Crafts movement contributed to modernism the ideas of the well-crafted object, art for the people (as opposed to for the elite), coherence and simplicity in design, and architecture's moral role in setting the tone of the entire modern town (see chapter 4).
		Perhaps Giedion ([1941] 1982, 484-85) captured it best when he argued that modernism presented a "new conception of space," that instead of emphasizing the "supports of projecting parts such as.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s8163.html (5086 words)

	Amazon.com: "Siegfried Giedion": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pioneers of the Modern Movement by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83), Space, Time and Architecture by Siegfried Giedion (1888-1968), and The International Style by Hitchcock and Johnson.
		Space and Time and Architecture One of Joyce's friends in Zurich was Siegfried Giedion, whose Space, Time and Architecture30 was, McLuhan claimed, `one of the great events of my lifetime' (inter- view with Steam,...
		Siegfried Giedion views the assembly line in a similar manner.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Siegfried-Giedion (505 words)

	Bottled Water and Wellness: American Healing Waters
		The other type of regenerative process is "social bathing," a receptive, relaxed, and restorative activity that incorporated what Giedion referred to as the "broad ideal: total regeneration" and embodied "well-being for the whole man." "Total regeneration" was a sociable and holistic system, usually therapeutic.
		Today, unfortunately, these traditional natural therapeutic spa practices and health resort medicine are largely forgotten, their hidden histories, however, still linger in dark attics and damp cellars, where old file cabinets contain a wealth of helpful information ready for rediscovery.
		Also ready for rediscovery are the holistic and integrated regenerative processes--what Giedion called "total regeneration." These once well-established natural spa and health resort processes of "taking-the-waters" can provide a way for our speed-driven culture to reconnect with Nature's basic elements and environmental limits, and most importantly, with humanity's healthful rhythms and traditional rituals.
	www.finewaters.com /Water_Wellness/American_Healing_Waters.asp (1458 words)

	Neoclassical architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The neoclassical movement that produced Neoclassical architecture began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Late Baroque.
		"The Louis XVI style formed in shape and structure the end of late baroque tendencies, with classicism serving as its framework." In the sense that neoclassicism in architecture is evocative and picturesque, a recreation of a distant, lost world, it is, as Giedion suggests, framed within the Romantic sensibility.
		Intellectually Neoclassicism was symptomatic of a desire to return to the perceived "purity" of the arts of Rome, the more vague perception ("ideal") of Ancient Greek arts (where almost no Western artist had actually been) and, to a lesser extent, sixteenth-century Renaissance Classicism, the source for academic Late Baroque.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neoclassical_architecture (1234 words)

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		They feared mechanization would eventually replace the need for man. This fear is realized in the writings of Siegfried Giedion regarding the mechanization of bread making, "All operations and machines were coordinated and synchronized with clockwork precision.
		Giedion suggests we must begin to establish equilibrium in the following four spheres in order to continue man's evolution:
		With this equipoise in place, man can again begin to assess his physical and mental involvement in various processes and reclaim valuable time needed to move him well beyond his current state and into the future.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /course/51-702/llane2_24ST.html (397 words)

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		As Siegfried Giedion has described him, Arkwright created the first mechanization of production "[in] a hostile environment, without protectors, without government subsidy, but nourished by a relentless utilitarianism that feared no financial risk or danger." By the beginning of the nineteenth century, England was spawning such entrepreneurs in every major city.
		By 1806, the concept of the power loom, introduced by Edmund Cartwright (a clergyman no less), was revolutionizing the textile industry by eliminating, once and for all, skilled workers, replacing them with workers who merely kept the machines operating.
		To quote Giedion again: "Everyone invented, whoever owned an enterprise sought ways and means to make his goods more speedily, more perfectly, and often of improved beauty.
	www.quasar.ualberta.ca /edmedia/readingsnc/Drefpos.html (4606 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Invention & Technology Magazine, Summer 1994
		A historian of technology is supposed to know this, but it helps to be reminded from time to time.
		The answer was that there was a wonderful story there, and as Giedion would not have been surprised to learn, one full of provocative lessons for how new technologies really come into being.
		The zipper, it turns out, is the perfect vehicle for exploring how and why men and women seek to create new things and how difficult it in fact can be to change the ways of the world, no matter how clever and ingenious our inventions are.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/1994/1 (333 words)

	STEAD - Tools
		Swiss architectural historian (1888-1968), Siegfried GIEDION has long influenced the popular image of modern architecture (1).
		However, Giedion is especially known for his work titled "Mechanization Takes Command" (2) published in 1947.
		In this book, GIEDION does not address the design of everyday objects, but rather the representations of their use.
	www.placeaudesign.com /stead/en/outils-0.html (448 words)

	Faculty Profile
		First, monument making is situated within the theories and practices of modern art, architecture and the avant-garde that sought to redefine, change; or even eliminate; the monument as a category.
		These include writings and works spanning from Alois Riegl, Adolf Loos and Filippo Marinetti to Siegfried Giedion, Robert Smithson, Claus Oldenburg and Krzysztof Wodiczko.
		Second, the course contextualizes these issues within a history of the built landscape that emerged in the United States after the 19th century, which can itself be read as an index of the cultural and technological project of modernity.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /people/faculty/sommer/courses.html (958 words)

	Made in America: Source and References
		Giedion, Siegfried, Mechanization Takes Command, New York, 1948.
		Giedion, Siegfried, Space, Time and Architecture, Cambridge, Mass., 1941.
		Siegfried, Andre, America Comes of Age, New York, 1927.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/Made/sources_and_refs.html (4909 words)

	Amazon.com: Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition (The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It not only reviews the varied fields of architecture and city planning in relation to an emerging industrial technology, but also shows their parallel development in the visual arts.
		Sigfried Giedion is today recognized as one of the world's most eminent architectural critics and historians.
		The unusual success of his Space, Time and Architecture, first published in 1941 and now greatly revised and expanded, is due to his deep investigation into the whole philosophical and technical background of our modern civilization.
	www.amazon.com /Space-Time-Architecture-Tradition-Enlarged/dp/0674830407 (1984 words)

	PP/8/16 SIEGFRIED GIEDION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jack Pritchard had met Giedion during his visit to Switzerland in 1934 and it was Giedion who arranged transport to England of the furniture which Jack had purchased during his visit.
		The later correspondence refers to Giedion’s work at the Bauhaus-Archiv and arrangements for bringing a major exhibition of the work of Walter Gropius to England in 1972.
		More correspondence with Giedion is to be found in File
	www.lib.uea.ac.uk /lib/libinf/find/archives/pritchard/pp8.16.htm (68 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Steiger, Rudolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1924 he and his wife opened their own practice in Basle before finally settling in Zurich in 1925.
		Steiger’s first completed commission, the Sandreuter House (1924) near Basle, was described by Siegfried Giedion as the first consistently Modernist house to be built on Swiss soil, although it attracted strong criticism from the local heritage lobby.
		The Werkbund development (1928–31) at Neubühl, Zurich, designed by a team of architects that included Steiger, established Modernist ideas for housing estate design, with structures aligned so as to afford residents sunlight and a lake view.
	www.artnet.com /library/08/0812/T081203.asp (410 words)

	MIT Architecture: Subject Description 4.650 Fall '02
		The course looks at theories of the body and its inevitable entanglement within technology as offering a parallel history of architecture and space since the Renaissance.
		Le Corbusier's radical, and much reviled, manifesto of the modern house as machine and Siegfried Giedion's landmark 'anonymous' account of spatial technology in the aptly titled Mechanization Takes Command mark but two crucial instances of an immense corpus of thought in its 'Western' mould.
		The course will look at critical philosophers such as Renè Descartes and Julien de la Mettrie, Blade Runner and the Alien films, Marxist views on production, feminist interventions in the production-reproduction debates, in addition to architectural and artistic thought that reflect key moments of these discourses.
	architecture.mit.edu /subjects/fa02/4650.html (281 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Gropius Lectures At Design Forum
		George Howe, director of Architecture at Yale, emphasized that architectural students should learn to get along with businessmen, politicians, and construction men.
		The other speakers were Catherine Baner, lecturer and lobbyist on housing, and Siegfried Giedion, professor of Architecture at Zurich.
		Miss Bauer stated that study of old masterpieces would prevent modern students from falling into modern cliches, while Giedion stressed that a "study of the past will prevent students from losing contact with reality."
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=211706 (187 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Connection
		It does, however, become incredibly pompous in Siegfried Giedion's article on "Continuity and Change in the Vocation of the Architect" when Giedion quotes himself three times.
		Even in Giedion's article, tone is not the main problem.
		Connection has a laudable aim, but it needs more informative writing and much tighter editing.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=248406 (421 words)

	Siegfried Giedion Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Siegfried Giedion Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Sigfried Giedion war der publizistische Pionier, der Kritiker und Chronist des im Europa der zwanziger Jahre so bedeutungsvollen neuen Bauens und seiner weltweiten Auswirkungen.
		In der Vielfalt oft widersprchlicher Tendenzen suchte er die geheime Synthese, in der sich eine neue Tradition ankndigte.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Siegfried_Giedion (136 words)

	Amazon.fr : Espace, temps, architecture: Livres: Siegfried Giedion,Walter Gropius,Irmeline Lebeer,Françoise-Marie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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		de Siegfried Giedion, Walter Gropius (Préface), Irmeline Lebeer (Traduction), Françoise-Marie Rosset (Traduction)
		d'architecture, l'œuvre de Giedion élabore une théorie évolutive de l'art, de l'architecture et de la civilisation matérielle.
	amazon.fr /Espace-temps-architecture-Siegfried-Giedion/dp/2207255247 (520 words)

	Mark Campbell: Green Carpet Ceilings: The Textile Art of Elvis Presley
		Harry Francis Mallgrove and Wolfgang Herman (New York: Cambridge UP, 1989), p.
		Siegfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command (New York: W. Norton, 1969), p.
		Nickolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1960), p.
	www.thepander.co.nz /culture/mcampbell6.php (5433 words)

	California Dreamin’ \| Metropolis Magazine
		It’s an unlikely job, but it has to happen to somebody.
		Consider John Ruskin, Filippo Marinetti, Norman Bel Geddes, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Reyner Banham, Siegfried Giedion, Bruce Mau, Karim Rashid, Stewart Brand, William J. Mitchell, and Jane Jacobs.
		Just look at that offhand collegial way that I can recite all of their names now.
	www.metropolismag.com /cda/story.php?artid=1843 (1244 words)

	Regional study about architecture and identity in Brazil
		Regional study about architecture and identity in Brazil
		According to the architectural historian Siegfried Giedion who emigrated from Europe to America, Brazil has always played a central role in the regionalism debate.
		Brazilian architecture became a paradigm of regional architecture at the beginning of the 40’s.
	www.tu-berlin.de /fak6/urban-management/arch-id/research_r_brazil.htm (228 words)

	TIME.com: Who Were History's Great Leaders? -- Jul 15, 1974 -- Page 3
		To a lesser degree, Moses did the same.
		MARSHALL McLUHAN, Canadian communications philosopher: The late Siegfried Giedion, Swiss art historian and author of Mechanization Takes Command (1948).
		He was a student of formal structures in the man-made world and instituted the study of forms in everyday life.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,879377-3,00.html (740 words)

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