Del i serien A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Eternal Present, Volume II

The Beginnings of Architecture

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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An original account of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian architecture from the acclaimed architectural historianIn 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-08-15
Mått203 x 254 x 35 mm
Vikt1 310 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieA. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
Antal sidor616
FörlagPrinceton University Press
ISBN9780691251882

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"[Giedion] relates the great monuments that greet us at the outset with the great spaces of the Aurignacian caves and with the ancient cult of the animal treated as a sacred object. One of his most original intuitions is that ‘the religious structure of the first high civilizations was founded upon the discovery of the human form and the human face’ and the appreciation of the naked body."---Lewis Mumford, The New Yorker