Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcrete
- ISBN-10
- 0892363193
- ISBN-13
- 9780892363193
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-09-01
- Publisher
- Getty Publications
- Author
- Sigfried Giedion
Description
With Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcretre (1928)—published now for the first time in English—Sigfried Giedion positioned himself as an eloquent advocate of modern architecture. This was the first book to exalt Le Corbusier as the artistic champion of the new movement. It also spelled out many of the tenets of Modernism that are now regarded as myths, among them the impoverishment of nineteenth-century architectural thinking and practice, the contrasting vigor of engineering innovations, and the notion of Modernism as technologically preordained.
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