Space, Time and Architecture

1943, the fourth printing of Sigfried Giedion's influential architecture book

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Printing Details

First edition, fourth printing. Hardback bound in black cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. 25.5 × 17.5cm, xvi + 601pp.

Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture was first published in 1941 and is a pioneering and influential standard history of the background and cultural context of modern architecture and urban planning, set in their cultural relationships "with other human activities and the similarity of methods that are in use today in architecture, construction, painting, city planning and science." As a survey of the built urban environment since the città ideale of the Renaissance it remains a remarkable work of scholarship and analysis.

Condition

A good reading copy. Bumping to the corners and surface mottling to the rear board, with a smaller area of lifting to the sheen on the upper board. Contents in better condition, with a little foxing to the title page but the main body of text clean. Previous owner's bookplate to ffep.