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Giedion, Siegfried, Space, Time and Architecture: the Growth of a New Tradition, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1963, fourth enlarged edition, thick lg 8vo (9.75" x 7.25"), HB, black cloth bds w/ gilt titles; blue, white & red pictorial dj w/ blue decorative titles, VG / VG. Owner's sig. in blue ballpoint on ffep, shelfworn, extremities bumped, covers foxed, text block slightly soiled. DJ edgeworn, rubbed, slightly soiled.
xlviii + 778 pp. 14th printing; first in 1941. 463 b/w illus. Exhaustive text with sections on "History of Part of Life," "Our Architectural Inheritance," "The Evolution of New Potentialities," "The Demand for Morality in Arhcitecture," "American Development," "Space-Time in Art, Architecture, and Construction," "City Planning in the Nineteenth Century," "City Planning as a Human Problem," "Space-Time in City Planning." Subtopics range from Bauhaus to da Vinci, bridge construction and ferro-concrete to the balloon frame and the Windsor chair, Frank Lloyd Wright to Cubism, Walter Gropius to Le Corbusier, parks in Paris and London to parkways. [Book ID # 847]
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