Main entry:

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

Title & Author:

The beginnings of architecture / S. Giedion.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1981], ©1964.

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:
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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Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0691018359 (pbk.)
9780691018355 (pbk.)
0691097899

Subject:

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:

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