1954 SIGFRIED GIEDION Space Time & Architecture SIGNED Architect Harvard Modern

Description

The influential architectural historian inscribes
his most famous work to an up-and-coming younger colleague
Sigfried Giedion:
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition.
Third edition, enlarged. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Black cloth, 9-3/4' x 7-1/4", 778 pages, illustrated in black and white, the front flyleaf bearing the typewritten Harvard bookplate of Paul Grayson and the rear flyleaf bearing his address stamp (see below). Lacking jacket, and just a touch of subtle rubbing, otherwise clean, attractive, and near fine overall.
Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf, "P. Grayson, there is one thing which helps excellently human understanding, this is the coming together of different generations on the basis of a common spiritual interest. Giedion, Harvard, Dec. 1954."
An expansion of Giedion's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard during 1938–1939. Among the scores of architects whose works are pictured and discussed are Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius (Giedion's Harvard colleague), Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, and others.
The book's original owner, Harvard architecture graduate Paul Grayson (1930–2006), worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, I. M. Pei, and Hugh Stubbins before founding his own firm in Boston. Among other endeavors, Grayson was project architect for the World of Century 21 Theme Exposition for the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962, as well as for numerous Boston-area buildings.
Uncommon in signed copies.
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