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133 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 4/4

In the finale of our series on Sigfried Giedion, we discussed the bait-and-switch coda of the book, where Giedion unexpectedly addresses questions of urbanism and town planning, via Haussmanisation, designs for Lyon by Tony Garnier, the Garden City movement, slab block modernism and Manhattan. Follow along with images on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1d8rDIt0mIw [https://youtu.be/1d8rDIt0mIw] We hope you enjoyed this series. We will be back soon with a discussion of William Golding's 'The Spire'! Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon [https://patreon.com/about_buildings] to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter [https://twitter.com/about_buildings] // instagram [https://www.instagram.com/about_buildings/] // facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aboutbuildings/] We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org [http://aboutbuildingsandcities.org/] This podcast is powered by Pinecast [https://pinecast.com].

*Preview* — Giedion's 'Mechanisation Takes Command' Bonus Episodes

Some clips from our Patreon bonus episodes on Sigfried Gideion's 'Mechanisation Takes Command'. If you've enjoyed the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon for full access to these bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/c/about_buildings [https://www.patreon.com/c/about_buildings] Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter [https://twitter.com/about_buildings] // instagram [https://www.instagram.com/about_buildings/] // facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aboutbuildings/] We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org [http://aboutbuildingsandcities.org/] This podcast is powered by Pinecast [https://pinecast.com].

132 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 3/4

In part three of our discussion of 'Space, Time and Architecture', we finally got to the Spacetime and the architecture. We examined Giedion's thinking about many canonical works of the late-19th and 20th century, including the Chicago School, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright; the emergence of ferro-concrete in France with Perret and the bridges of Swiss engineer Robert Maillart and definitionally Modernist works by Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto. To follow along with the images as we discuss them, you can find this episode on our YouTube channel: This podcast is powered by Pinecast [https://pinecast.com].

131 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 2/4

In the second part of our discussion of Sigfried Giedion's 'Space, Time and Architecture' we covered the canalpunk aesthetics of cast-iron bridges, the transformation of material technology in the 19th-century and the Chicago School, completing his teleological march up to modernism which we will discuss in the next episode. To follow along with the images, you can watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z2NCz-xl7V8 [https://youtu.be/Z2NCz-xl7V8] Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon [https://patreon.com/about_buildings] to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter [https://twitter.com/about_buildings] // instagram [https://www.instagram.com/about_buildings/] // facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aboutbuildings/] We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org [http://aboutbuildingsandcities.org/] This podcast is powered by Pinecast [https://pinecast.com].

130 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 1/4

In this first episode of a new series on Sigfried Giedion's 1941 book 'Space, Time and Architecture', we discussed the approach to architectural history and urbanism in the first part of this totemic publication which shaped modernist architectural culture. Giedion was a Jewish historian from a family of Swiss industrialists, born in Prague who studied under Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich. He was a founding member of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne or "CIAM" who left Europe for America in the 1930s like many other Jewish émigrés. The lectures he gave at Harvard in the late 1930s were published as 'Space, Time and Architecture', one of the most influential works of architectural history and theory of the 20th century. Watch this episode on YouTube for illustrations: https://youtu.be/89sjkU8G2bw [https://youtu.be/89sjkU8G2bw] Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon [https://patreon.com/about_buildings] to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter [https://twitter.com/about_buildings] // instagram [https://www.instagram.com/about_buildings/] // facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aboutbuildings/] We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org [http://aboutbuildingsandcities.org/] This podcast is powered by Pinecast [https://pinecast.com].