Word: giedion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sigfried Giedion, professor of the History of Architecture at the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology and visiting lecturer on Architecture here, called the proposal "a crime, an act of barbarism...
...Giedion said that the Robie house "is the starting point of contemporary architecture and the high-water mark of any of Frank Lloyd Wright's productions during his 'Chicago years...
Other members or the department of Architecture joined Giedion in calling the Robie House a "landmark in the history of American architecture." Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, emertius, remarked that "for advanced conception this building impressed me more than any other when I first came to this country...
...first nine winners of $10,000 each easily met Graham's desire that recipients be up to "postgraduate work." The winners, chosen with the help of an all-star advisory committee of top architects, museum directors and Swiss Art and Architecture Historian Sigfried Giedion: Sculptor-Welders Harry Bertoia, 41, of Barto, Pa., Joseph Goto, 36, of Chicago and Keith Monroe, 39, of San Francisco; Painter Walter Kuhlman, 38, of San Francisco; Architects Frederick Kiesler, 64, of New York City and Paul Nelson, 62, an American now practicing in Paris; Painter-Film-Maker James Edward Davis, 55, of Princeton...
Naum Gabo, a sculptor and lecturer on Design; James J. Sweeney, director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York; Sigfried Giedion, visiting professor of Architecture, and Serge Chemayeff, professor of Architecture...