Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition

"The standard work on the development of modern architecture."—Walter Gropius

"Giedion’s accomplishment remains unmatched."—José Luis Sert

Sigfried Giedion was an unlikely candidate for the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry at Harvard. Trained as a mechanical engineer and an art historian, the Swiss polymath had a tenuous command of English and little name recognition when he accepted the prestigious yearlong post in 1938, narrowly edging out the novelist Thomas Mann. After his twe...