Product Description: First published in 1948, Mechanization Takes Command is an examination of mechanization and its effects on everyday life. A monumental figure in the field of architectural history, Sigfried Giedion traces the evolution and resulting philosophical implications of such disparate innovations as the slaughterhouse, the Yale lock, the assembly line, tractors, ovens, and “comfort” as defined by advancements in furniture design...read more

Analyzes contemporary architectural techniques, potentialities, innovations, and concepts as they apply to city planning

Product Description: With this text--published here for the first time in English--Sigfried Giedion positioned himself as an eloquent advocate of modern architecture, exalting Le Corbusier as the artistic champion of the new movement. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This classic of twentieth-century architectural literature, now available in English for the first time, presents Sigfried Giedion's provocative vision of architecture in the industrial era and his response to technological advances in the production of key building materials...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Noted critic’s authoritative, objective study of great pioneer of modern architecture. Masterly analysis of evolution of contemporary architecture, achievements of Bauhaus, much more. Over 300 photographs and plans of buildings and projects enhance the text...read more

Product Description: Professor Giedion examines the art and architecture of the first high civilizations of Egypt and Sumer.

Product Description: Book by Giedion, Sigfried