132 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 3/4
From About Buildings + Cities by Architecture, History + Culture, with Luke Jones & George Gingell
November 18, 2025 · 1h 7m · Season 1
About this episode
The episode discusses Sigfried Giedion's ideas on architecture as presented in 'Space, Time and Architecture', focusing on key figures and movements in late-19th and 20th-century architecture.
In part three of our discussion of 'Space, Time and Architecture', we finally got to the Spacetime and the architecture. We examined Giedion's thinking about many canonical works of the late-19th and 20th century, including the Chicago School, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright; the emergence of ferro-concrete in France with Perret and the bridges of Swiss engineer Robert Maillart and definitionally Modernist works by Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto. To follow along with the images as we discuss them, you can find this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/14OeGtn53CY?si=kU0FTyuYMuNUzgyI Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter // instagram // facebook We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org This podcast is powered by Pinecast .
People in this episode
Hosts: Luke Jones, George Gingell
Topics covered
- architecture
- modernism
- design history
- urbanism
- 20th century architecture
- canonical works
Keywords
- Sigfried Giedion
- Space Time and Architecture
- modern architecture
- Chicago School
- ferro-concrete
- Walter Gropius
- Le Corbusier
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- design history
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Chicago School, Pinecast
Books & works: Space, Time and Architecture
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