Space, Time, and Architecture (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Sigfried Giedion
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture, Art or artists, Lectures or lecturing, Space and time, Architecture or architects
Form and Content
In the late 1930’s, Sigfried Giedion, a Swiss art historian, traveled from Europe to the United States to teach at Harvard University, where he was invited to give the Charles Eliot Norton lectures for the academic year 1938-1939. These lectures, with the seminars he gave during the same period, formed the basis for the text of the first edition of Space, Time, and Architecture (1941). Both the lectures and the text of the book were originally prepared in German, Giedion’s native language and the one in which he had earlier published two...
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