Sigfried Giedion

Details

Nationality

Swiss

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

ObservationReason

Subject

Human centred

Political position

Hegemonic

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

[DRAFT] Swiss historian and first secretary-general of CIAM whose Space, Time and Architecture (1941) became the canonical history of the modern movement and whose Mechanization Takes Command (1948) traced the cultural effects of industrial production.

Connections

• authored Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
• influenced Reyner Banham
• authored Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History
• authored Bauen in Frankreich, Bauen in Eisen, Bauen in Eisenbeton
• associated with Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)
• founded Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)

Referenced by

• Walter Gropius collaborated with
• Wilhelm Worringer influenced
• Heinrich Wölfflin mentored

Sources

1. Sigfried Giedion. Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition. Harvard University Press, 1941.
2. Sigfried Giedion. Mechanization Takes Command. Oxford University Press, 1948.
3. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 13 of 18