num_pages: 604
description: An original account of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian architecture from an 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.
language: English
title: The Beginnings of Architecture: The Eternal Present : A Contribution on Constancy and Change (The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 1957) Bollingen Series XXXV
titlecomplete: The Beginnings of Architecture: The Eternal Present : A Contribution on Constancy and Change (The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 1957) Bollingen Series XXXV
genres: Art, Art History, Architecture
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Princeton University Press