Sigfried Giedion
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Sigfried Giedon (April 14, 1888, Prague – April 10, 1968, Zürich) was a Bohemia-born Swiss historian of architecture, and critic for architecture..
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 taught as professor of art history at Zurich University.
He was a pupil of Heinrich Wölfflin.
Literary Works
- Spätbarocker und romantischer Klassizismus, 1922
- Space, Time & Architecture, 1941
- Mechanization Takes Command, 1948
- The Eternal Present, 1964
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