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[...]... put aside, unused In connection with an appointment in America it seemed to me more urgent to make some studies of the effect of mechanization upon our daily lives, which, through the power of the same ruling taste, was misused in a way somewhat similar to art This I tried to do in Mechanization Takes Command Since that time my interests have become more concerned with the continuity of human experience... dictatorship completely inhibited the development of architectural ruling taste imagination In architecture, as with the art of the ruling taste "the eel-smooth and mobile world of the present slips between the fingers/' Part a The Need ON MONUMENTALITY for a New Monumentality On Monumentality and Color by Fernand Leger Nine Points on Monumentality Some Words on Fernand On the Space-Emanating Power of Contemporary... won judgment the heart of the great public, was Ary Scheffer, a Dutch painter (1795-1857) Today his name is quite unknown, but at that time he bewitched great and small, rich and poor It was Baudelaire's criticism of his work in the Salon of 1846 that brought him to my notice During the summer of 1936 I did my best to understand the phenomenon of Ary Scheffer, and the following is a shorthand version... The Tragic Part Conflict 1936, 1955 2 ON MONUMENTAUTY 22 Marginalia 25 The Need 40 On Monumentally and Color, by Femand Liger 48 52 56 57 for a New Monumentality Nine Points on Monumentality Some Words on Femand Leger 1944 1943 1943 1955 Marginalia On the Space-Emanating Power of Contemporary Sculpture Part 1949 3 ON THE COOPERATION OF ARCHITECT, PAINTER, AND SCULPTOR 67 Marginalia On the Force of Aesthetic... especially at a time monumenwhen most people do not even grasp the most elementaiy requirements for a functional building But we cannot close our eyes 1 New *944)> PP- 22 Architecture find City Planning, ed Pad Zucker (New York, Whether we want it or not, the problem of monumentality before us as the task of the immediate future All still lies that could then be done was to point out gers and some of the possibilities... gold medals, of the Prix de Rome, of officialdom The general public in the most general sense of this term, whether rich or poor swallowed it whole Middle-income groups raised their tone by hanging engravings on their walls, made by skillful craftsmen; noblemen, industrialists and financiers had the originals, for which they paid their fa- vorites as much as a thousand francs per square centimeter... events of the period immediately preceding our own time 41 Some fragments of this earlier material may help to clarify the picture for only through a careful study and documentation of a typical case can one gain insight into the degree to which the ruling taste paralyzed the capacity for Franz Rob, Der verkannte Kunstler (Munich, 1948) 4 S Gicdion, Mechanisation Takes Command (New York, 1948) 14... moant-tasting medicinal powder lift before the poison begins its fell work mentary of this situation was that the greatest The consequence work continues painters of this period, the only ones whose to survive today, were forced to capitulate to the situation and become doomed to unimportance Production as an end in itself and in the domain of the emotions escape into romanticism, go hand in hand throughout... between meth- ods of thinking and methods of feeling it is impossible to have a positive way of life or genuine culture In my introductory chapter to Space, Time and Architecture under the title, "History a part of life/* I sought to express this disastrous conflict, as follows: have behind us a period in which thinking and feeling were separated This schism produced individuals "We whose inner development... the essence of the period and give it form, were, in such great measure, debarred from contact with the masses Franz Roh, in "Studies of History and the Theory of Cultural Misunderstandings," included in his book Der verkannte Kiinstler (The unappreciated artist), laid the cornerstone of a Kesonanzgeschichte (history of the recep2 Sigfried Giedion, Space, 1954), p 13 Time and Architecture, jrd ed (Cambridge . as the Key to Reality 1937 10 Marginalia 11 The Tragic Conflict 1936, 1955 Part 2. ON MONUMENTAUTY 22 Marginalia 25 The Need for a New Monumentality 1944 40 On Monumentally and Color, by Femand Liger 1943 48 Nine Points on Monumentality 1943 52 Some Words on Femand Leger 1955 56 Marginalia 57 On the Space-Emanating Power. class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" S. GIEDION architecture you and me The diary of a development Harvard University Press iy;8 Cambridge, Massachusetts 1958 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College Distributed in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, London Printed in the. sciences just as much as in architecture and town planning, it is only those gifted with imagination who can find solutions to the problems facing us today. Architecture, You and Me was first published in German as vol. 18 of the