Main entry:

Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968, author.

Title & Author:

Space, time and architecture : the growth of a new tradition / Sigfried Giedion.

Edition:

First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2008.

Description:

lvi, 897 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm.

Series:

The Charles Eliot Norton lectures for 1938-1939

Notes:
"Fifth revised and enlarged edition"--Cover.
Reprint of fifth revised and enlarged edition, originally published in 1967.
First edition published in 1941 as an outgrowth of lectures and seminars given by the author as Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University, 1938-1939.
©1977 by William J. Callaghan; © 1982 by Andreas Giedion and Verena Clay-Giedion -- verso of title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Architecture of the 1960s: Hopes and Fears -- Part I: History a Part of Life -- Part II: Our Architectural Inheritance -- Part III: The Evolution of New Potentialities -- Part IV: The Demand for Morality in Architecture -- Part V: American Development -- Part VI: Space-Time in Art, Architecture, and Construction -- Part VII: City Planning in the Nineteenth Century -- Part VIII: City Planning as a Human Problem -- Part IX: Space-Time in City Planning -- Part X: In Conclusion.

Summary:

"A classic first published in 1941, translated into half a dozen languages, and now in a fifth edition, Space, Time and Architecture is an unparalleled work on the shaping of our architectural environment. The discussions of leading. architects - Wright, Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Aalto, Utzon, Sert, Tange, and Maki - are accompanied by over 500 illustrations."--Cover.

ISBN:

9780674030473 (pbk.)
0674030478 (pbk.)

Subject:

Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968.
Architecture History.
City planning History.
Space (Architecture)
Architecture and technology.
City planning Social aspects.
Architecture Histoire.
Espace (Architecture)
Architecture et technologie.
Architecture.
City planning.
Swiss Architectural historians.
Architectural theory.
Architectural history.
Architecture (object genre) United States 1800-1940.
Architecture (object genre) Europe 1400-1940.
Urban planning United States 1800-1940.
Urban planning Europe 1800-1940.

Form/genre:

Lectures.
History.

Added entries:

Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1938-1939.

Space, time & architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259685
Call No.: BIB 190603
Status: Available