Word: giedion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressing the growth of public squares in the towns of the eighteenth century, Dr. Siegfried Giedion, Historian of Art and Architect, Zurich, spoke last night at Fogg Museum. His talk was the third of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on the subject of "Architectural Inheritance...
...examples of towns Dr. Giedion used Paris, Bath, Nancy, and Versailles. "The importance of Versailles doesn't lie in its royal splendor but in its clear approach to the problem of human living," he said...
Speaking of his Norton lectures, the first of which will be given tonight in the Fogg at 8:30 o'clock, the genial Giedion said: "They try to make a bridge between history and contemporary times, showing how history is dynamic, not day to day. We have no respect for our own tradition. Cultural life today is a unity, although every country has her own tasks to fulfill. We need to have the courage to become conscious of ourselves; then we are able to form a tradition, necessary for every epoch. The most important thing is for those who govern...
Subsequent lectures by Giedion, held Tuesday evenings, will be: November 22, "Architectural Inheritance: Early Renaissance and Late Baroque;" November 29, "Architectural Inheritance; The Organization of Outer Space;" and December 13, "New Potentialities: Architecture and Construction...
Since 1928 Dr. Giedion has been the general secretary and leader of the International Congress of Contemporary Architecture. For the last three years he has been writing a study of the social background of modern times in relation to modern trends of building. He has traveled throughout Europe investigating the exact sources of all building questions, especially problems of social development following the introduction of the machine...