Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer , city (1990 pop. 44,244), Pas-de-Calais dept., N France, in Picardy, on the English Channel. A commercial seaport and the leading fishing port of France, it has canning and shipbuilding industries. It is an important ferry port between France and England. The opening of the Channel Tunnel at nearby Coquelles, France may have an impact on the city's ferry services and industries. From there the Romans sailed (AD 43) to conquer Britain, and there again Napoleon assembled an invasion fleet (which never sailed) in 1803-5. The port was a main base for British armies in World War I and a German submarine base in World War II. Most of the city was destroyed during the latter conflict. The Cathedral of Notre Dame (built 19th cent.; damaged 1941; since restored) is a great shrine of pilgrimage; it stands on a site where miracles were believed to have occurred in the 7th cent.
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Architectural form: David Dunster considers the historical relationship between architecture and engineering, how it was tested during the early years of Modernism and how structure might yet fulfil its potential for expression.(comment)(Essay)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...publication by the secretary of CIAM Sigfried Giedion. On 15 February 1929, Walter Benjamin wrote to Giedion thanking him for his new book Building...Frankfurt and then in New York. In this, Giedion's book is quoted more than 20 times...
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astragal
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 7/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of an all-too-likely meeting between Sigfried Giedion and Frank Lloyd Wright. The latter extends...Giedion, asking: 'And who are you?' Giedion replies:'My name is Sigfried Giedion. I am a historian.'To which Wright rejoins...
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The Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...less than Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Sigfried Giedion. These were the historians who...s Pioneers of Modern Design and Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture...to Walter Gropius to Pevsner and Giedion. The operative notion is that...
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Obituary: Professor Christian Norberg-Schulz
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/3/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of the great Swiss art historian Sigfried Giedion, the spokesperson for international...architecture came directly from Giedion who, as well as serving as his...architectural space also came from Giedion, who was known to claim: "Ich...
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Culture span. (reconciling new technologies with old perceptions in architectural design)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 3/1/1996; 700+ words
; ...must have young people.'(5) Sigfried Giedion, in whose epoch-making 1941...had made in the nineteenth. Of Giedion's many passages on the wonders...machines it contains'.(6) Giedion was out to provide the examples...
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Structurally sound: Masters of Structure: engineering today's innovative buildings.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...prefabrication techniques. The author quotes Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture, where Giedion said that 'the seeds of the architecture...be found in technical developments'. Giedion also said of the great bridge engineer...
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Back Issues
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 11/13/2008; ; 536 words
; ...Expositions Survive?' by Swiss critic Sigfried Giedion. Gabo bemoaned the fact that...organization or consciousness'. Giedion gave a brief history of the exposition...It wouldn't have mattered if Giedion and Gabo had been writing a hardware...
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Electricity, writing, architecture.
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...comprehension of space. So much was this the case that Sigfried Giedion's first book on modern architecture--Bauen in Frankreich...artists--and a desire for historical continuity. For Giedion, the mechanisms of an operative critique dealt with...
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Cultural Bounty in Basel: from ancient antiquities associated with the mysterious boy pharaoh Tutankhamen to mutually enriching friendships between 20th-century artists, no other European city can equal Basel this summer in terms of the quality and diversity of exhibitions on view.(Art & Culture)
Magazine article from: Swiss News; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...relationship to Switzerland, including a flourishing friendship with architectural theoretician Sigfried Giedion and his wife, the critic Carolyn Giedion-Welcker, who helped organise an exhibition of contemporary art at the Zurich Kunsthaus in...
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L'affaire Suisse.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...importance of enlightened clients and lobbyists, among them Sigfried Giedion. Much of the book is then given over to the development...before-published letters by the likes of Le Corbusier, Giedion, and his clients. These offer insights into the unwavering...
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Sigfried Giedion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sigfried Giedion , 1883-1968, Swiss historian of architecture. Giedion was a student of Heinrich Wölfflin and close...became chairman of the graduate school of design. Giedion presented lectures at Harvard in which he broke with...
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Giedion, Sigfried
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Giedion, Sigfried (1888–1968). Swiss art-historian, he became a powerful...Architecture and the Phenomena of Transition (1970). Bibliography Giedion (1922, 1928, 1954, 1954 a , 1958, 1962–4, 1967, 1969...
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CIAM
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...a rich patron of architects, Madame Hélène de Mandrot(1867–1948), in 1928, Sigfried Giedion organized a meeting of leading Modern architects including Berlage , Le Corbusier , El Lissitzky , Rietveld , and...
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C.I.A.M.
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...egrave;s internationaux d'architecture moderne). Founded in 1928 by Hélène de Mandrot, Sigfried Giedion , and Le Corbusier , C.I.A.M. sought to divert architecture from academic preoccupations. The organization...
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Baron Georges Eugène Haussmann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...good background, although opinionated, particularly on Garnier's Op é ra, and not well illustrated. Sigfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (1941; 5th ed. 1967), contains superior illustrations...
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