Space, time and architecture - Siegfried Giedion

Third edition - 1956
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Space, Time and Architecture
Author Sigfried Gidieon
Genre Architectural history/criticism
Publisher Harvard University Press
Publication date 1941, 1949 (2nd ed), 1954 (3rd ed), 1962 (4th ed), 1967 (5th ed)
Pages 960
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition is a book by Sigfried Giedion first published (by Harvard University Press) in 1941.[1] It is a pioneering[2] and influential standard history giving in integrated synthesis the background and cultural context of modern architecture and urban planning, set in their manifold cultural relationships "with other human activities and the similarity of methods that are in use today in architecture, construction, painting, city planning and science."[3] The book was immediately recognized for the author's "monumental and catholic curiosity which compels him to penetrate long neglected nineteenth century by-lanes and reveal to modern eyes their importance for an appreciation of the complex culture of that period and our own."