by JOSEPH RYKWERT
The first of two talks about the ideas of the Swiss historian Siegfried Giedion, author of Spare, Time and Architecture, Mechanization 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.
The Eternal Present: September 19