Sigfried Giedion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sigfried Giedion (April 14, 1888, Prague – April 10, 1968, Zürich) was a Bohemia-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture.
His ideas and books, Space Time and Architecture, and Mechanization Takes Command, had an important conceptual influence on the members of the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1950's era.
He was the first secretary-general of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne. He has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, where he became chairman of the graduate school of design.
He was a pupil of Heinrich Wölfflin, and he taught as professor of art history at Zurich University.
[edit] Literary Works
- Spätbarocker und romantischer Klassizismus, 1922
- Space, Time & Architecture, 1941
- Mechanization Takes Command, 1948
- The Eternal Present, 1964
-
This biographical article about an art historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
