The beginnings of architecture / S. Giedion.

By:

Giedion, Sigfried, 1888-1968

Contributor(s):

National Gallery of Art (É.-U.)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Bollingen series ; XXXV, 6-II. | A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine artsPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1981, c1964.Description: xx, 583 p. : ill. cartes ; 26 cmISBN:

0691018359 (pbk.)
9780691018355

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.9 GIE

LOC classification:

NA210 .G53 1957

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	720.9 GIE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000123134

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An original account of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian architecture from an acclaimed architectural historian

In The Beginnings of Architecture , Sigfried Giedion examines the architecture of ancient Egypt and Sumer. These early builders expressed an attitude of immense force when they confronted their structures with open sky. Giedion argues that it was during these periods that the problem of constancy and change flared up with an intensity unknown in any other period of history, and resolved eventually into the first architectural space conception , the automatic, psychic recording of the visual environment.

"Part 2 of The eternal present, ... of the A.W. Mellon lectures in the Fine Arts, which are delivered annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington."

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sigfried Gideon (1888-1968) was an eminent critic and historian of architecture and art who had a major influence on architectural modernism. His books include Space, Time, and Architecture and Mechanization Takes Command. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and ETH Zurich.