An original account of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian architecture from an 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.
- ISBN10 0691018359
- ISBN13 9780691018355
- Publish Date 21 November 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 604
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/1019.html