Author : Sigfried Giedion
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691251899
The Eternal Present, Volume II by Sigfried Giedion Pdf
An original account of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian architecture from the 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.