- Introduction: Architecture of the 1960s: 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
- The Nineties: Precursors of Contemporary Architecture
- 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 Research 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
- The New Space Conception: Space-Time
- 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
THE CHARLES ELIOT NORTON LECTURES


Space, Time and Architecture
The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition
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