130 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 1/4

In this first episode of a new series on Sigfried Giedion's 1941 book 'Space, Time and Architecture', we discussed the approach to architectural history and urbanism in the first part of this totemic publication which shaped modernist architectural culture. Giedion was a Jewish historian from a family of Swiss industrialists, born in Prague who studied under Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich. He was a founding member of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne or "CIAM" who left Europe for America in the 1930s like many other Jewish émigrés. The lectures he gave at Harvard in the late 1930s were published as 'Space, Time and Architecture', one of the most influential works of architectural history and theory of the 20th century. Watch this episode on YouTube for illustrations: Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us!

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130 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 1/4 is an episode from About Buildings + Cities by Luke Jones & George Gingell Discuss Architecture, History and Culture.

This episode is 00:47:43 long.

This episode was published on Sep 29, 2025.

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