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Constructing the Modern Movement
Pont Transbordeur (1905) and
harbor of Marseilles.
(From Sigfried Giedion,
Bauen in Frankreich, fig. 1.)
Giedion comments:
“A mobile ferry suspended by
cables from the footbridge high
above the water connects traffic
on the two sides of the harbor.
This structure is not to be taken
as a ‘machine.’ It cannot be
excluded from the urban image,
whose fantastic crowning it
denotes. But its interplay with
the city is neither ‘spatial’ nor
‘plastic.’ It engenders floating
relations and interpenetrations.
The boundaries of architecture
are blurred.”
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