• Sigfried Giedion (also spelled Siegfried Giedion; 14 April 1888, Prague – 10 April 1968, Zürich) was a Bohemian-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture...
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  • Sigfried is a male given name, and may refer to: Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes (922–998), first ruler of Luxembourg Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968), Bohemia-born...
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  • Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition is a book by Sigfried Giedion first published (by Harvard University Press) in 1941. It is a pioneering...
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    He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Sigfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great...
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    12 November 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2011. It occupies a section in Sigfried Giedion, [1948] 1969. Mechanization Takes Command (Oxford University Press)...
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    florence-museum.com. "History of Uffizi Gallery". www.uffizi.com. Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture (1941) 1962 fig.17. "Tribuna :: Hall...
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    p78 "Space, time and architecture: the growth of a new tradition, By Sigfried Giedion – Google Books". Retrieved 24 May 2010. "Corus in construction – Exhibition...
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    society that allows us an architecture of prefabricated dwellings. As Sigfried Giedion explained at the First Congress of the CIAM: Aware of the profound...
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    historian Nikolaus Pevsner and Swiss historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion. In Western Europe, institutions for design education date back to...
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    organized by Le Corbusier, Hélène de Mandrot (owner of the castle), and Sigfried Giedion, (the first secretary-general). CIAM was one of many 20th-century manifestos...
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    reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture:...
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    Dictionary of Architecture, Grange Books, Rochester, 2005, p. 1. Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Harvard...
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    Zurich, Switzerland – for Sigfried Giedion 1935 Doldertal Apartments – Zurich, Switzerland – with A and E Roth for Sigfried Giedion 1935 Isokon furniture...
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    Marseille. This conference is documented in a film commissioned by Sigfried Giedion and made by his friend László Moholy-Nagy: "Architects' Congress."...
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    in La Sarraz, Switzerland. The co-founders included Le Corbusier, Sigfried Giedion, Hendrik Berlage, Karl Moser, and his future business partner Werner...
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    use of light framing timber was already common. Architectural critic Sigfried Giedion cited Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel's 1880s attribution, as well...
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  • "a Sultan's district, a harem, and ... as a Moroccan settlement." Sigfried Giedion references Pessac (as well as the Villa Savoye and the League of Nations...
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  • Joseph Weizenbaum, Hans Jonas, Theodore Roszak, Siegfried Kracauer, Sigfried Giedion, Günther Anders, Neil Postman, Martin Heidegger, Vilem Flusser, Jacques...
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  • the American historian Lewis Mumford and the Swiss art historian Sigfried Giedion began to systematically investigate the social consequences of technology...
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  • Courtauld Institute of Art in London where he studied under Anthony Blunt, Sigfried Giedion and Nikolaus Pevsner. Pevsner, who was his doctoral supervisor, invited...
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    in 1929 (papers by Sigfried Giedion, Ernst May, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Victor Bourgeois), and in Brussels in 1930 (Giedion, Böhm and Kaufmann,...
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    Marseilles. This conference is documented in a film commissioned by Sigfried Giedion and made by his friend László Moholy-Nagy. The Charter had a significant...
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  • with Wölfflin's students, such as Franz Roh, Hans Curjel, Sigfried Giedion, and Carola Giedion-Welcker. In Freiburg, Kauert studied under art historian...
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    Gerais (1938–1954). ISBN 978-85-736-5534-6 Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira. Sigfried Giedion e o caso Brasileiro: uma aproximação hirtoriográfica., Universitat...
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  • such as Adolf Loos, Ernst May, Hannes Meyer and historians such as Sigfried Giedion, Bruno Zevi, etc. Architecture and Modernity, besides attempting to...
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    European architects organized by Le Corbusier, Hélène de Mandrot, and Sigfried Giedion. The CIAM was one of many 20th century manifestos meant to advance...
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    Münter, Jawlensky). The influential architectural critic and historian Sigfried Giedion in his book Space, Time and Architecture (1941) dismissed Expressionist...
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  • David Füleki Yishay Garbasz Wolfgang Ganter Heinrich Gätke Isa Genzken Sigfried Giedion Willi Glasauer Mathias Goeritz Ekkeland Götze Henry Gowa Carl Grossberg...
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    cited sometimes. The influential architectural critic and historian Sigfried Giedion, in his book Space, Time and Architecture (1941), dismissed Expressionist...
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  • Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) Eugene S. Ferguson (1916–2004) Peter Galison Sigfried Giedion Charles Coulston Gillispie Robert Gunther (1869–1940) Paul Forman (historian)...
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