Sigfried Giedion Bio
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Giedion, Sigfried [occasionally misspelled as "Siegfried"]
Date born: 1888 [NYT says 1893]
Place born: Prague, Czechoslovakia [NYT says Swiss canton of Aargau]
Date died: 1968
Place died:Zurich, Switzerland
Architectural historian; German Neo-Classicism. Giedion was born to Johann and Bertha Jacobs Giedion. He received his Ph.D. in art history under Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich.Giedion was appointed professor at the university in Zurich. He left Switzerland shortly before World War II to be the Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry in 1938 at Harvard University. His Nortonlectures for 1938-1939 became his most famous book, Space, Time and Architecture: the Growth of a New Tradition. He married fellow Wölfflin student Carola Welcker, who under her married nameGiedion-Welcker, also published on modern architecture. Giedion was appointed professor in Harvard University's new Graduate School of Design in 1938, founded by Walter Gropius. He returned to Europe to headof the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich in 1947. The following year his Mechanization Takes Command appeared. In 1951 he returned to the United States to teach at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology and lecturing at Harvard. After Gropius' retirement in 1952, his biography of Gropius appeared in 1954. Giedion returned to Harvard as a visiting professor from 1954-1956, lobbying withanother part-time Harvard lecturer, Eduard Sekler, for a return architectural history courses to Harvard's architectural program, which Gropius had eliminated. In 1957 he delivered the A. W. Mellon lecturesat the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In 1962 Giedion published his Bollingen lectures. His Mellon lectures were published in 1964 as Eternal Present.
Giedion's Mechanization TakesCommand was criticized by Pierre Francastel in Francastel's Art et Technique, 1956, accusing him of among other things, idealism. He doubted Giedion's contention that the Crystal Palace and balloon-frame...
Date born: 1888 [NYT says 1893]
Place born: Prague, Czechoslovakia [NYT says Swiss canton of Aargau]
Date died: 1968
Place died:Zurich, Switzerland
Architectural historian; German Neo-Classicism. Giedion was born to Johann and Bertha Jacobs Giedion. He received his Ph.D. in art history under Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich.Giedion was appointed professor at the university in Zurich. He left Switzerland shortly before World War II to be the Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry in 1938 at Harvard University. His Nortonlectures for 1938-1939 became his most famous book, Space, Time and Architecture: the Growth of a New Tradition. He married fellow Wölfflin student Carola Welcker, who under her married nameGiedion-Welcker, also published on modern architecture. Giedion was appointed professor in Harvard University's new Graduate School of Design in 1938, founded by Walter Gropius. He returned to Europe to headof the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich in 1947. The following year his Mechanization Takes Command appeared. In 1951 he returned to the United States to teach at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology and lecturing at Harvard. After Gropius' retirement in 1952, his biography of Gropius appeared in 1954. Giedion returned to Harvard as a visiting professor from 1954-1956, lobbying withanother part-time Harvard lecturer, Eduard Sekler, for a return architectural history courses to Harvard's architectural program, which Gropius had eliminated. In 1957 he delivered the A. W. Mellon lecturesat the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In 1962 Giedion published his Bollingen lectures. His Mellon lectures were published in 1964 as Eternal Present.
Giedion's Mechanization TakesCommand was criticized by Pierre Francastel in Francastel's Art et Technique, 1956, accusing him of among other things, idealism. He doubted Giedion's contention that the Crystal Palace and balloon-frame...
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