by JOSEPH RYKWERT
The first of two talks about the ideas of the Swiss historian Siegfried Giedion, author of Space, Time and Architecture, Mechaniza-tion Takes Command and, most recently, The Eternal Present
Joseph Rykwert , now Professor of Art in the University of Essex, who has for long been an admirer of Giedion's work, singles out his particular contribution to an understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century building.
Second broadcast
The Eternal Present:
Thursday at 10.25 p.m.