Space, Time and Architecture; The Growth of a New Tradition

Parnassus ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
H. W. Janson ◽  
Henry-Russell Hitchcock ◽  
Sigfried Giedion
Keyword(s):  
Space Time ◽  
New Tradition

Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition

1941 ◽  
Vol 1 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Kenneth John Conant ◽  
Siegfried Giedion
Keyword(s):  
Space Time ◽  
New Tradition

Siegfried Giedion, Modernism and American Material Culture

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Tallack
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Space Time ◽  
World War ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Teaching Position ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
New Tradition

The Swiss architectural critic and historian of technology, Siegfried Giedion, was born in 1893 and died in 1968. Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (1941) and Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History (1948) are his two most well-known books and both came out of time spent in the United States between 1938 and 1945. World War Two kept Giedion in America though he, unlike many other German-speaking European intellectuals, came home and in 1946 took up a teaching position at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich where he later became professor of art history. While in the United States he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (1938–39), saw them in print as Space, Time and Architecture, and also completed most of the research in industrial archives and patent offices for Mechanization Takes Command. These two books are an important but, for the past twenty years, a mostly neglected, analysis of American material culture by a European intellectual, whose interests in Modernism included painting — notably Cubism and Constructivism — as well as architecture and planning. The period which saw the publication of Giedion's key works is, itself, an overlooked phase in the trans-Atlantic relationship between Modernism and modernization.

Sigfried Giedion,Space, Time and Architecture, the Growth of a New Tradition

1944 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
Turpin C. Bannister
Keyword(s):  
Space Time ◽  
New Tradition

Space, Time and Architecture, the Growth of a New Tradition

1944 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Turpin C. Bannister ◽  
Sigfried Giedion
Keyword(s):  
Space Time ◽  
New Tradition

Space, Time and Einstein

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Space Time

Spinors and Space-Time

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Penrose ◽  
Wolfgang Rindler
Keyword(s):  
Space Time

Do Writing Directions Influence How People Map Space onto Time?

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 173-184
Author(s):  
Wenxing Yang ◽  
Ying Sun
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Horizontal Axis ◽  
Causal Role ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Temporal Cognition ◽  
Japanese Speakers ◽  
Psychological Experiments ◽  
Vertical Up

Abstract. The causal role of a unidirectional orthography in shaping speakers’ mental representations of time seems to be well established by many psychological experiments. However, the question of whether bidirectional writing systems in some languages can also produce such an impact on temporal cognition remains unresolved. To address this issue, the present study focused on Japanese and Taiwanese, both of which have a similar mix of texts written horizontally from left to right (HLR) and vertically from top to bottom (VTB). Two experiments were performed which recruited Japanese and Taiwanese speakers as participants. Experiment 1 used an explicit temporal arrangement design, and Experiment 2 measured implicit space-time associations in participants along the horizontal (left/right) and the vertical (up/down) axis. Converging evidence gathered from the two experiments demonstrate that neither Japanese speakers nor Taiwanese speakers aligned their vertical representations of time with the VTB writing orientation. Along the horizontal axis, only Japanese speakers encoded elapsing time into a left-to-right linear layout, which was commensurate with the HLR writing direction. Therefore, two distinct writing orientations of a language could not bring about two coexisting mental time lines. Possible theoretical implications underlying the findings are discussed.

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