Stanislaus von Moos, Chris Smeenk (eds.): Avant Garde und Industrie (1983) [English/German]
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Collected papers from a symposium held at the Department of Architecture at Delft University of Technology in May 1981.
Contributions in English from Niels L. Prak, Leonard K. Eaton, Tim Benton, and Jan van Geest; in German from Franziska Bollerey, Hanne Bergius, Stanislaus von Moos, Andreas Haus, Flip Bool, Martin Steinmann, and Otakar Máčel.
Publisher Delft University Press, Delft, 1983
ISBN 9062751091
176 pages
via TU Delft
PDF (29 MB)
Comment (0)Reyner Banham: Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, 2nd ed. (1960/1967)
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First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced a generation of students and critics interested in the formation of attitudes, themes, and forms which were characteristic of artists and architects working primarily in Europe between 1900 and 1930 under the compulsion of new technological developments in the first machine age.
Publisher Praeger, New York and Washington, 1960
Second edition, 1967; Second printing, 1970
338 pages
Review (Robert Gardner-Medwin, The Town Planning Review, 1961)
Review (Dennis Young)
Review (Caroline S. Lebar, 2012)
Review (of the 2009 French edition, Hugues Fontenas, Critique d’art, 2010, in French)
Commentary (Gillian Naylor, Journal of Design History, 1997)
Commentary (Nigel Whiteley, 2005)
PDF (50 MB, no OCR)
Comment (0)Siegfried Giedion: Mechanization Takes Command (1948)
Filed under book | Tags: · agriculture, architecture, furniture, history of technology, industry, machine, movement, philosophy, philosophy of technology, production, technology
“First published in 1948, Mechanization Takes Command is an examination of mechanization and its effects on everyday life. A monumental figure in the field of architectural history, Siegfried Giedion traces the evolution and resulting philosophical implications of such disparate innovations as the slaughterhouse, the Yale lock, the assembly line, tractors, ovens, and “comfort” as defined by advancements in furniture design. A groundbreaking text when originally published, Giedion’s pioneering work remains an important contribution to architecture, philosophy, and technology studies.”
Publisher Oxford University Press, New York, 1948
Third printing, 1970
743 pages
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Reviews: John E. Sawyer (The Journal of Economic History, 1949), Harry Elmer Barnes (American Journal of Sociology, 1949), William F. Ogburn (The American Historical Review, 1948), Henry Guerlac (American Quarterly, 1949), Donald Horton (American Sociological Review, 1948), Paul Zucker (The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1949), Arthur P. Molella (Technology and Culture, 2002), Tom Vanderbilt (Bookforum, 2010), Bryan E. Norwood (Culture Machine, 2015).
PDF (removed on 2014-4-21 upon request of the University of Minnesota Press)
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