Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
by Sigfried Giedion
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A classic first published in 1941, this is an unparalleled work on the shaping of our architectural environment. In his discussions of leading architects and styles, Giedion examines the evolving of new traditions; the strengthening of its plastic tendencies and conditions for further evolution; the urban renewal boom of the fifties; and the development of regionalism by creatively oriented architects.Tags
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Canonical book, for it establishes some of the upcoming "moral values" of Modern Architecture.
Giedion's seminal work - first appeared as "Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for 1938-1939" - belongs to a centenary tradition of Classical Rationalists such as Viollet-le-Duc or Auguste Choisy, for whom architectural history derives directly from the history of building technology.
It is a classical work: a must-read for anyone interested in Modern Architecture and its early history.
Giedion's seminal work - first appeared as "Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for 1938-1939" - belongs to a centenary tradition of Classical Rationalists such as Viollet-le-Duc or Auguste Choisy, for whom architectural history derives directly from the history of building technology.
It is a classical work: a must-read for anyone interested in Modern Architecture and its early history.
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Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) taught at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and was Mellon Lecturer at the Washington National Gallery and the Charles Elliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard University. His other works include Space, Time, and Architecture and The Eternal Present. Stanislaus von Moos is emeritus professor of show more history of modern art at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. show less
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Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (1938-1939)
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- Canonical title
- Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
- Original title
- Space, Time and Architecture
- Original publication date
- 1941; 1954 (Dutch) (Dutch)
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- 8 — Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 17
- ASINs
- 21
