The beginnings of architecture / S. Giedion.

Main entry:

Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968.

Title & Author:

The beginnings of architecture / S. Giedion.

Publication:

Description:

xx, 583 pages, 3 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Eternal present / S. Giedion ; v. 2
The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1957
Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks
Bollingen series ; XXXV, 6, [pt.] 2

Notes:
"First Princeton/Bollingen paperback printing."
"This is part two of 'The Eternal Present', the sixth volume of the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, which are delivered annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington"--T.p. verso.
Lectures given in 1957.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 540-551) and indexes.
The differing destinies of Egypt and Sumer -- The eggshells of prehistory -- Creating an anthropomorphic cosmos -- Constancy and change in the mode of expression -- The origins of monumental architecture : Mesopotamia -- Ziggurats : stairways of the gods -- Beginnings of stone architecture and the ka : Egypt -- Pyramids : rites and space -- The great temples and the eternal wandering -- Hatshepsut and the cosmic inner court -- Supremacy of the vertical -- The first architectural space conception.
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0691018359 (pbk.)
9780691018355 (pbk.)
0691097899

Subject:

Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968
Architecture, Ancient Middle East.
Architecture Middle East.
Architecture, Ancient Egypt.
Architecture Egypt.
Architecture antique Égypte.
Architecture Égypte.
Architecture.
Architecture, Ancient.
Architecture, Ancient History.
Egypt.
Middle East.

Form/genre:

Lectures.

Added entries:

Tyrwhitt, Jaqueline
Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968. Eternal present ; v. 2.
A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1957.
Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks.
Bollingen series ; 35, 6, pt. 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 181177
Call No.: NA2599.8.G454.A63 1981
Copy: c. 1
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library prints and drawings office 181176
Call No.: NA2599.8.G454.A63 1981
Copy: c. 2
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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