Sigfried Giedion

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Swiss person architectural critic art historian historian of architecture

Sigfried Giedion was a Swiss art historian and architectural critic best known for his influential writings on modern architecture, particularly the seminal book "Space, Time and Architecture."

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Swiss person → architectural critic → art historian → historian of architecture →
academicAdvisor	Heinrich Wölfflin →
countryOfCitizenship	Switzerland →
dateOfBirth	1888-04-14 →
dateOfDeath	1968-04-10 →
educatedAt	ETH Zurich → University of Munich NERFINISHED → University of Zurich →
fieldOfWork	architectural history → art history → modern architecture → urbanism →
gender	male →
genre	architectural theory → art criticism → cultural history →
hasPublicationYear	1941 (Space, Time and Architecture, first edition) → 1948 (Mechanization Takes Command) →
influenced	Colin Rowe → Reyner Banham → Team 10 →
influencedBy	Heinrich Wölfflin → Le Corbusier → Walter Gropius →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → German →
memberOf	Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne →
movement	International Style → Modernism →
notableIdea	historical interpretation of modern architecture as part of long-term cultural processes → synthesis of space, time, and architecture as a unified modern tradition →
notableWork	Bauen in Frankreich, Bauen in Eisen, Bauen in Eisenbeton → Mechanization Takes Command → Space, Time and Architecture → Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition →
occupation	lecturer → university professor → writer →
placeOfBirth	Austria-Hungary → Prague →
placeOfDeath	Switzerland → Zurich NERFINISHED →
positionHeld	secretary-general of the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne →
spouse	Carola Giedion-Welcker →
taughtAt	ETH Zurich → Harvard University → Massachusetts Institute of Technology →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne →	hasMember
La Sarraz Congress →	participant