THE CHARLES ELIOT NORTON LECTURES
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Space, Time and Architecture

The Growth of a New Tradition

Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition

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    • Introduction: Architecture of the 1960’s: Hopes and Fears

      Part I: History A Part Of Life

    • Introduction
    • The Historian’s Relation to His Age
    • The Demand for Continuity
    • Contemporary History
    • The Identity of Methods
    • Transitory and Constituent Facts
    • Architecture as an Organism
    • Procedure

      • Part II: Our Architectural Inheritance

      The New Space Conception: Perspective

      Perspective and Urbanism

    • Prerequisites for the Growth of Cities
    • The Star-Shaped City

      • Perspective and the Constituent Elements of the City

    • The Wall, the Square, and the Street
    • Bramante and the Open Stairway
    • Michelangelo and the Modeling of Outer Space
    • What Is the Real Significance of the Area Capitolina?

      • Leonardo da Vinci and the Dawn of Regional Planning

      Sixtus V (1585-1590) and the Planning of Baroque Rome

    • The Medieval and the Renaissance City
    • Sixtus V and His Pontificate
    • The Master Plan
    • The Social Aspect

      • The Late Baroque

      The Undulating Wall and the Flexible Ground Plan

    • Francesco Borromini, 1599-1667
    • Guarino Guarini, 1624-1683
    • South Germany: Vierzehnheiligen

      • The Organization of Outer Space

    • The Residential Group and Nature
    • Single Squares
    • Series of Interrelated Squares

      • Part III: The Evolution Of New Potentialities

    • Industrialization as a Fundamental Event

      • Iron

    • Early Iron Construction in England
    • The Sunderland Bridge
    • Early Iron Construction on the Continent

      • From the Iron Column to the Steel Frame

    • The Cast-Iron Column

      • Toward the Steel Frame

    • James Bogardus
    • The St. Louis River Front
    • Early Skeleton Buildings
    • Elevators

      • The Schism Between Architecture and Technology

    • Discussions
    • École Polytechnique: the Connection between Science and Life
    • The Demand for a New Architecture
    • The Interrelations of Architecture and Engineering

      • Henri Labrouste, Architect Constructor, 1801-1875

      New Building Problems—New Solutions

    • Market Halls
    • Department Stores

      • The Great Exhibitions

    • The Great Exhibition, London, 1851
    • The Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1855
    • Paris Exhibition of 1867
    • Paris Exhibition of 1878
    • Paris Exhibition of 1889
    • Chicago, 1893

      • Gustave Eiffel and His Tower

      Part IV: The Demand For Morality In Architecture

      The Nineties: Precursors of Contemporary Architecture

    • Brussels the Center of Contemporary Art, 1880-1890
    • Victor Horta’s Contribution
    • Berlage’s Stock Exchange and the Demand for Morality
    • Otto Wagner and the Viennese School

      • Ferroconcrete and its Influence upon Architecture

    • A. C. Perret
    • Tony Gamier

      • Part V: American Development

    • Europe Observes American Production
    • The Structure of American Industry

      • The Balloon Frame and Industrialization

    • The Balloon Frame and the Building-up of the West
    • The Invention of the Balloon Frame
    • George Washington Snow, 1797-1870
    • The Balloon Frame and the Windsor Chair

      • Plane Surfaces in American Architecture

    • The Flexible and Informal Ground Plan

      • The Chicago School

    • The Apartment House

      • Toward Pure Forms

    • The Leiter Building, 1889
    • The Reliance Building, 1894
    • Sullivan: The Carson, Pirie, Scott Store, 1889-1906
    • The Influence of the Chicago World’s Fair, 1893

      • Frank Lloyd Wright

    • Wright and the American Development
    • The Cruciform and the Elongated Plan
    • Plane Surfaces and Structure
    • The Urge toward the Organic
    • Office Buildings
    • Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright
    • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Late Period

      • Part VI: Space-Time In Art, Architecture, And Construction

      The New Space Conception: Space-Time

    • Do We Need Artists?

      • The Research Into Space: Cubism

    • The Artistic Means

      • The Resarch Into Movement: Futurism

      Painting Today

      Construction and Aesthetics: Slab and Plane

    • The Bridges of Robert Maillart
    • Afterword

      • Walter Gropius and the German Development

    • Germany in the Nineteenth Century
    • Walter Gropius
    • Germany after the First World War and the Bauhaus
    • The Bauhaus Buildings at Dessau, 1926
    • Architectural Aims

      • Walter Gropius in America

    • The Significance of the Post-1930 Emigration
    • Walter Gropius and the American Scene
    • Architectural Activity
    • Gropius as Educator
    • Later Development
    • American Embassy in Athens, 1956-1961

      • Le Corbusier and the Means of Architectonic Expression

    • The Villa Savoie, 1928-1930
    • The League of Nations Competition, 1927: Contemporary Architecture Comes to the Front
    • Large Constructions and Architectural Aims
    • Social Imagination
    • The Unité d’Habitation, 1947-1952
    • Chandigarh
    • Later Work
    • The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, 1963
    • Le Corbusier and His Clients
    • The Priory of Ste. Marie de la Tourette, 1960
    • The Legacy of Le Corbusier

      • Mies van der Rohe and the Integrity of Form

    • The Elements of Mies van der Rohe’s Architecture
    • Country Houses, 1923
    • The Weissenhof Housing Settlement, Stuttgart, 1927
    • The Illinois Institute of Technology, 1939-
    • High-rise Apartments
    • Office Buildings
    • On the Integrity of Form

      • Alvar Aalto: Irrationality and Standardization

    • Union between Life and Architecture
    • The Complementarity of the Differentiated and the Primitive
    • Finnish Architecture before 1930
    • Aalto’s First Buildings
    • Paimio: The Sanatorium, 1929-1933
    • The Undulating Wall
    • Sunila: Factory and Landscape, 1937-1939
    • Mairea, 1938-1939
    • Organic Town Planning
    • Civic and Cultural Centers
    • Furniture in Standard Units
    • Aalto as Architect
    • The Human Side

      • Jørn Utzon and the Third Generation

    • Relations to the Past
    • Jørn Utzon
    • The Horizontal Plane as a Constituent Element
    • The Right of Expression: The Vaults of the Sydney Opera House
    • Empathy with the Situation: The Zurich Theater, 1964
    • Sympathy with the Anonymous Client
    • Imagination and Implementation

      • The International Congresses for Modern Architecture (CIAM) and the Formation of Contemporary Architecture

      Part VII: City Planning In The Nineteenth Century

    • Early Nineteenth Century
    • The Rue de Rivoli of Napoleon I

      • The Dominance of Greenery: The London Squares

      The Garden Squares of Bloomsbury

      Large-Scale Housing Development: Regent’s Park

      The Street Becomes Dominant: The Transformation of Paris, 1853-1868

    • Paris in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
    • The “Trois Réseaux” of Eugène Haussmann
    • Squares, Boulevards, Gardens, and Plants
    • The City as a Technical Problem
    • Use of Modern Methods of Finance
    • The Basic Unit of the Street
    • The Scale of the Street
    • Haussmann’s Foresight: His Influence

      • Part VIII: City Planning As A Human Problem

    • The Late Nineteenth Century
    • Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City
    • Patrick Geddes and Arturo Soria y Mata
    • Tony Gamier’s Cité Industrielle, 1901-1904

      • Amsterdam and the Rebirth of Town Planning

    • H. P. Berlage’s Plans for Amsterdam South
    • The General Extension Plan of Amsterdam, 1934
    • Interrelations of Housing and Activities of Private Life

      • Part IX: Space-Time In City Planning

    • Contemporary Attitude toward Town Planning

      • Destruction or Transformation?

      The New Scale in City Planning

    • The American Parkway in the Thirties
    • High-rise Buildings in Open Space
    • Freedom for the Pedestrian
    • The Civic Center: Rockefeller Center, 1931-1939

      • Changing Notions of the City

    • City and State
    • The City: No Longer an Enclosed Organism
    • Continuity and Change
    • The Individual and Collective Spheres
    • Signs of Change and of Constancy

      • Part X: In Conclusion

    • On the Limits of the Organic in Architecture
    • Politics and Architecture
    • Index